THE 



CONSTITUTION 



WILLIAM K. CLARKSON, 



GENTLEMAN. 



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All visible things, with their variety, may be redu- 
ced to four elmentary substances, each of these ex- 
celling each ; consisting in density and in, rareness. 
The four acknowledged, are, fire, air, water, and 
earth. These, separately and singly, differ from 
each other, and in themselves are distinguished by 
being dense or rare. They unite agreeable to an 
universal law; for all things agreeing in one exclude 
a difference. This difference is made conspicuous by 
taking the elements as they are set down, in an order 
of excellence. Fire 7 being most rare, has the ascen- 
dancy. Fire will not unite with water ; when brought 
together, there is a war between them — a difference 
even to destruction ; the water extinguishes the fire, 
and the fire evaporates the water. The next in order, 
even by a law of light — not, however, the material 
light, but an immaterial substance — the light of 
truth; for whatever is light is manifest, and whatever 
is manifest is visible, and so self-evident. Air occu* 



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pies the second place, fire being senior, or first born, 
water the third, and earth the fourth named element. 
These four separately are unlike each other; there- 
fore the fire and the water oppose each other; the 
air and the earth also, for one is heavy and the other 
is light, the one rises by its own levity, the other 
falls by its own weight. The words heavy and 
weight are indications of their quality, and refer to 
a standard, a measure of weights, and a weight of 
measures. By observing the principle of action, the 
natural course is known, and a certainty arrived at 
to refer the words heavy and weight, to find what 
class they belong to, together with its beginning and 
end, is done by analysis their properties discovered, 
their principle is known. Example makes a precept, 
and a precept is a principle of action. Heavy and 
weight are alike in nature, of one signification, whose 
beginning is a false or retrograde motion, opposed 
to that which is light, the one going upwards and the 
other downwards. So the terms dense and rare are 
a material and essential difference. The four ele- 
ments apart are unlike in properties, but will readily 
Unite with each other and be at peace. When order 
is observed, or the law of unity maintained, they up- 
hold the world. The earth unites with water, when 
thirsty, it readily drinks it ; air with the fire, for when 
the spark is blown it kindles the fire. And again, 
these couplets are distinguished by appellatives. — 
They are known to be dense or rare. Thus, the 



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fire and the water, the one is dense and the other 
rare. Fire is the most rare element in nature. 
The next in place is the air. Fire and air are the 
two rare elements, and the dense are water and 
earth. These terms of dense and rare are relative, 
like the words heavy and weight ; the beginning is as 
one letting out water, which falls to the earth, is se- 
condary, being a dense element. The term rare is a 
relative to truth, and akin to light ; a perfect law, the 
standard, for this one reason; without it all is dark- 
ness — nothing would be visible — a thing self-evident 
— a nothing manifested. Nothing exhibited is a va- 
cuum in nature ; a nothing or naught is a figure with- 
out content, the reduction of all things, the end of 
the same, the vanishing point of nature. 

Light being the standard of excellence, the two 
properties of dense and rare, opposed to each other, 
the one going upwards and the other downwards. — 
The rare ascending by its own vigue, which is light, 
the dense descending by reason of darkness, which 
is vice. Light and darkness are the most opposite 
things in nature, having no agreement with each 
other, however as they are used, so an effect or de- 
fect. More darkness than light will corrupt the light, 
while more light than darkness will convert darkness, 
according to their registry. Light being rare and pri- 
mary is more worth; darkness is dense, and of no 
estimate. The two rare elements, fire and air, and 
the two dense, of water and earth, agreeing or disa- 

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greeing as they are used. The water and the earth, 
two dense elements, agreeing in properties, being 
darkness, and the fire and the air, two rare elements^ 
also agreeing, which is light, making a compound 
couplet of fire and air, water and earth, with their par- 
ticular titles, are under the head of Light and Dark- 
ness. The standard, which is light, exists by a law, 
every thing visible bearing testimony, by sight it wit- 
nesses, by its presence it is self-evident. This law 
of observance in its course shines more and more unto 
perfection, and after an endless order, light, a created 
substance of an uncreated one, having no beginning, 
solely a power, whose properties are all things, and 
possession the whole world, or all in all. Darkness, 
by the same law not observed but neglected, decreas- 
ing, going downwards, obscures and makes destruc- 
tion. Light makes the day, and darkness the night. 
Darkness has a beginning, and is the commencement 
of time, and subject to light, for the world being up- 
held by the agreement of darkness and light, although 
separate dispositions, darkness is in unity with itself 
when it corrupts the light, and light is consistent 
when it converts darkness; the two agreeing in the 
one or the other, making a perfect day or night. 
Thus fire, air, water, earth, four elements of the 
world, by their union consists or is destroyed : order 
or disorder; wherever there is light there is order. 
Light is the intelligence of the soul, and the soul is 
the life of the earth. Disorder is of hell. Darkness 



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is the extinguisher of the soul, and the light put out 
is the death of the body. Light is elder born, and 
from an uncreated source, the son of love. Let there 
be light, and darkness on the instant departs, and 
measures its end. Time records the days of darkness, 
and to time darkness must submit. Darkness is the 
son of Perdition. Fire, air, water, earth, by virtue of 
their excellency find a place in the Universe by order 
of pre-eminence. The sun, a body of fire, is higher 
and above, and first in order, and his place is as ele- 
vated as he is rare. The material property of fire is 
heat, and the essential is light, keeping a proportion; 
the more light the more influence. While the heat 
prevails it parches and makes barren* according to 
light is his existence. The last distinction is neces- 
sary ; although independent of each other, existing 
separately and distinguished by their own properties, 
have in themselves a law of observation, the same 
in particular as in general. Light is the substance 
which supports life. The light is desired more than 
any thing else, and, of course, all things obey it. Air, 
by the same law is breathed, and is the breath of 
life; but unruly carries with it destruction. Air, by 
virtue of its rareness* attains the second place. The 
material property is sound, for as soon as struck, it 
•cries out, and again, when kindly entreated, discour- 
ses most eloquent music. The essential property is 
^elasticity. However touched, it replies accordingly. 
A vacuum, or absence of air, is nature's abhorrence. 



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The air ranks above the water, and the earth and 
neighbours the fire. Water finds its place beneath the 
air, and is a dense element, possessing an essential 
property of rare, by reason of its clearness or trans- 
parency; its material property is fluidity. Water 
retreats from the elements of fire and air ; it seeks a 
level with the earth. The earth last, and under the 
others, has solidity for its base; also immovable as a 
material property. The essential is the spirit, the 
animating or soul of the universe. These four ele- 
ments, fire, air, water, earth, with their properties, 
constitute the wealth of the world, the distinction in 
their properties being material and essential, and 
each separate element having the same, it is as the 
spirit is to the matter, the motion to the thing, and 
the soul to the body. These terms of spirit, of mo- 
tion, and soul, are alike in kind, and are a line of life, 
while the material part of the elements are dead, 
inert, and at rest, also a body corruptible. The spirit 
is the action, its presence is perceived by its move- 
ment or moiion. There can be no life without mo- 
tion ; no body can move without the spirit. Life is 
a perpetual motion; matter is dead, inert. The four 
elements form the world, and each according to their 
order, observe time; the matter gives form, and the 
spirit upholds the same. Matter may be considered 
the material by which the spirit fashions the work. 
The world was brought into being by the power of 
the spirit Eternal. Before the world was, the spirit 



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a being had ; an emanation of all power. Time be- 
gan when the world appeared, and has forever since 
observed time. Visible things are temporal, unseen 
things are eternal. These two substances of matter 
and spirit are distinct in quanlity and quality. Mat- 
ter a passive thing, spirit an active thing. Matter 
and spirit constitute the body of the world; spirit 
ever in motion, favors a chief power of the soul, an 
ability to stop or move at pleasure ; the soul an active 
principle, ever in motion, and the body passive and 
dead. All the power of motion being in the soul, she 
can move the body at will ; while a superior power 
to motion governs and orders all. Wisdom is the 
principle thing, the activities of the soul, or motion 
of bodies, are according to the truth. She is the 
chief good, and highest power of the soul — the in- 
telligential. The soul's activity as a power is seconda- 
ry, being under rule, and eminently useful for the mo- 
tions of life. The world a body of matter, subject 
to the motions of the spirit. The world of matter 
may be reduced to one thing — simple spirit ; it being 
the author, can resolve all things into itself. The 
world is composed of four elements; but every thing 
contains more or less fire. Fire, the first and chief 
element, and is above all. The second element of 
the air is fire in a lesser state ; the number is as 
twenty-five to the one hundred, a per centum, to un- 
derstand and arrive at a base or foundation, a misno- 
mer is employed. Calling the air a lesser fire, or the 



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element of air has less fire by twenty-five per cent — - 
the difference of one fourth of the component parts 
of the world. Fire is the first element by reason of 
universality. All the four elements contain a regular 
per centage or proportion, and the virtue of either, 
are as they contain fire. The element of air, the 
next in order, to the element of fire claims the second 
place, solely on account of its having more fire, caus- 
ing a neighborhood of the first element. Air is a 
supporter of fire, and is combustible containing three 
parts fire, and readily augments a flame, the fourth 
part wherein the difference exists between its being 
called fire or air, must take a new name, being less 
than the second element. Fire is an independent 
element, and all the others originate in fire, there- 
fore it is unquenchable. The air, according as it is 
administered, increases the power of fire, and as the 
air is withdrawn, so diminishes the fire. Fire goes 
out when the air is removed—is extinguished — and 
to the naked eye is not visible ; still it lives in an in- 
visible state. Fire and air are nearest to each other. 
Water, the third element, gravitates and seeks its 
level with the earth, and an excess of the element 
becomes a flood; nevertheless, water contains fire in 
an analysis, the product is combustible, and has a per 
centage — one half of water is fire; the other part 
neutralizes, has more of the earth, a natural affec- 
tion, and embraces the fourth element. If any more 
than one half be added to the element of water it, 






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causes an agitation or ebulition ; the water boils and 
flies off in steam; it is no longer water. Again, 
when the latent fire of the water is removed, it is no 
longer fluid ; it contracts, becomes hard ; it is called 
ice. Water boiling or freezing is at a certain point. 
The fourth element in the composition of the world 
consists in one part fire, and three parts without — is 
most distant from the first, having less of fire. As fire 
is the active agent, the earth is proportionably passive. 
Fire being the base of all the elements, has the pow- 
er of passing through them all. At first new objects 
present themselves, such as things that are not com- 
bustible. How can they be burnt up or annihilated ? 
One element may counteract another element. For 
instance, an excess of water will put out the fire ; 
but there being more of the element of fire in the 
composition of the world, is stronger, and so can sub- 
due all things. The fire itself afterwards dies — is no 
longer visible ; it becomes an invisible spirit- — the sub- 
stance of power. This view of the elements facili- 
tates and makes easy to be understood the nature of 
all things. The four elements are produced through 
the operations of the spirit, and the spirit again is 
reduced into power. There being four elements, or 
forms of the spirit, makes the varieties and qualities 
of bodies. The pre-existence of the spirit, an invisi- 
ble substance, originating from power, is the consis- 
tency of the elements ; themselves are the work of 
the spirit, are forms given to an invisible substance. 



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The variety or quality are the only named among 
the things, without number. The variety of any 
thing is in the variance or difference of their nature. 
This is known to be essential or material ; it is quali- 
fied by one, and debased by the other. The four ele- 
ments themselves are a base to the spirit, but either 
are in estimate as they contain. The elements are 
forms of the spirit, and the spirit are forms of power. 
The one visible, the other invisible. The visible 
forms are those seen in the world. 

The higher order of creation is by invisible forms. 
The pattern of the visible creation is figured in the 
invisible — the image of the unseen. Here are ap- 
parently four things : The power and form of the 
visible world, and the form and power of the invisi- 
ble. Still, it is only one spirit or power — the es- 
sence of all things ; while the forms are also one, 
whether visible or invisible — the material. They 
being coupled or paired, is the one seen — is finite, 
and the invisible is infinite. Form and power are 
now the distinguishing forms of all things. What- 
ever is created, has form — and forms are of power. 
Forms are subordinate, and are of matter — visible 
bodies. Power is above all things — the essential, 
invisible substance. Forms are solely the external 
appearances of bodies ; its greatest limit is exten- 
sion. Power is without limit. The forms of the 
world, are of the body, and matter is the substance 
of physics. The ethical forms are of the soul : these 



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powers are glorious, and one is more excellent. 
The created forms, or world of matter, are from 
small to large, from the least to the greatest. There 
is a connecting link, or chain of being. Forms, 
either visible or invisible, are a work of creation, 
or a display of power ; and the power of the word 
is a producing forms at will. The highest power 
is the intelligential, and ranks first in the order of 
being. Each element, like the parts of the world, 
is inhabited, and peculiar to itself. Beasts of the 
earth, fishes of the sea, birds of the air, and man, 
(salamander like,) lives in the element of fire — 
a spirited being. All these are animated, but not 
all intelligent — the principal distinction. They 
have a power of motion, together with an instinct, 
a quiescent consciousness, without the ability of 
speech. They agree in one thing — they all have 
breath. The vegetable kingdom is an animated 
one, but without a soul. The principle of vitality 
is heat; it also attaches itself to the earth, and 
not like bodies with a soul, moveable at pleasure. 
Light operates as a soul, with plants ; as it is the 
life of the soul, so it serves as the soul of the tree. 
Heat makes the plant sensitive, and light cultivated 
the tree of life. In the lowest soils are the minerals 
and metals. Here animation ceases ; but the prin- 
ciple of motion lies hid in the hardest thing in the 
world — the flint — a latent fire, the most remote or 
distant from the chief element. The diamond vies 
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in hardness, and emits sparks ; but the difference is 
in the rareness. The division so essential and ma- 
terial, is continued throughout ; for the essence of 
a thing is the life thereof — and matter constitutes 
the body. The progress of the soul is from dead 
things, from the stones of the earth, unto those 
things where she finds rest. The flint is the con- 
necting link, and contains the principle of motion, 
which is fire — a small thing, a spark — but becomes 
magnified in its progress, and gives value to all 
precious stones. It then appears in power in the 
loadstone, or magnet, traversing the earth, passing 
on gradually and increasing : leaving the minerals 
and metals, it enters the vegetable kingdom. The 
first thing that shows any spirit, is the sensitive 
plant : that recedes from the touch ; it is the be- 
ginning of one of the highest powers of the soul. 
The spring of this principle is in the blood — the 
power of life. The blood of the grape is found in 
the vine ; and the fruit of the tree contains the 
seeds of life. The sole (a small fish having life,) 
is found in the waters. Here is the beginning of 
instinct, and also a moveable thing : at first, a stone 
at rest ; now traced by a living principle. The 
whale contains a soul, and has a body motioned by 
the lungs, inhaling and exhaling the air — a chain 
of being from the watery element, to one whose 
property is sound. The lord of the deep, as he 
rises and falls, breathes out fire ; his voice is utter- 



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ed — a spouting and throwing of water. The con- 
necting links are stronger, as they are lengthened. 
The principle of motion, a spark of fire, is gradually 
kindled into a flame. Here is observed two distinct 
properties of fire : the one, material, which is heat ; 
and the other, light, (the essence of the element,) 
for wherever there is a flame, it is always accom- 
panied by light. The growth of generation, or 
vitality of being, has arrived at a head, and at each 
stage or eminence of its travel, a new endowment 
is bestowed. From the element of fire an influence 
is perceived, which is heat ; this is the first title of 
distinction ; its power consists in making bodies 
sensitive or animated, as is seen in the vegetable 
kingdom. The next thing is an irradiation ; the 
power of heat begins to give out light. These 
forces of fire, heat, light, are specific degrees of one 
element, in union, one power. This one power is 
the soul — a power of motion-— the only active thing 
in the world; and as there are reckoned only three 
degrees of comparison, these are given in honour 
to the soul. The leviathan, whose breath kindles 
coals of fire, discovers an instinct, with an effort at 
intellect. Life is substantiated in the whale. As 
in the natural, so in the intellectual world. From 
the seed of generation it grows to a tree of life. 
The air is a supporter of vitality ; the flame dies, 
or goes out, when the air is removed. Every thing 
that breathes has a soul ; and the air is not more 



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necessary to the flame of a candle, than respiration 
to the soul. The whale lives in the deep ; the 
waters cover him ; but his being is connected with 
the element of air. This region is noisy in the 
extreme: here the gull dips her wing, and cries 
aloud. The property of this element is elasticity, 
from whence all sounds proceed ; and, as the soul 
gives breath, distinctions are made, and discords 
are brought to an agreement. Light has entered 
the soul, and gives her the power of utterance. 
This formation is of instinct ; it consists in sounds, 
which are indicative of joy or sorrow. The nightin- 
gale tunes her voice, and all the birds join the song. 
Every thing with breath endeavors to articulate, 
and the parrot tries to speak. Light is the medium 
through which all things are discovered or seen : 
it may be called one of the powers universal — cer- 
tainly one of the most valuable — light being one of 
the degrees of power. The soul is the power of 
the body — and light, or knowledge, is the life of 
the soul: the dawn of knowledge is in instinct, 
which is the consciousness of the soul, a witnessing 
of the spirit. The hound points towards life, and 
shows an intellect. The monkey motions the man ; 
is like him in form, particularly in parts. Sagacity 
is in the elephant. Next in order is the infant ; 
without knowledge, it is true, but in possession of 
the intellectual property: this one power connects 
man, as human, with the Deity: this is a natural 



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Connection or link of being ; but, to continue intelli- 
gence, and use this plantation as the ground of the 
seeds' nurture, and raise up virtues or life, is the 
province of knowledge. The four elements are the 
substance of all physical forms, and the ethical are 
the virtues of the soui : the number are the same, 
and, being the essential of bodies, they are in esti- 
mate as they are based or founded. Fire, as an 
elementary base, has for its essence or nature, forti- 
tude : fire conquers all things — so does fortitude : 
their sphere of action differs ; one is visible, and 
is in matter ; the spirit is not seen ; it is known only 
by its effects. The second element of air is the 
base of a corresponding nature, possessing the same 
property only in essence ; its registry is the same 
as its base, and finds an assent equal to its rareness. 
Justice under fortitude, makes the more excellent. 
Elasticity (the property of air, or a return to its 
state of rest,) is the essence of justice, equalizing 
itself. The element of water is opposite to that of 
fire, and its virtue is temperance, the property of 
which is to level, and its essence makes all even. 
The water of temperance allays the fire of fortitude, 
and justice would be light, were it not for the gra- 
vity of prudence. This virtue has the earth for its 
base — and, like that element, likes nothing better 
than rest. Prudence is dense or grave, and all her 
weight is balanced by justice. Fortitude and jus- 
tice are the soul of being : temperance and prudence 
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are friends of the body. These are the forms of the 
heart — the centre of all bodies, and the substance 
most hard : from the heart are the issues of life — 
the blood. The virtues are the support of being, 
and constitute the mind of man : they are elemen- 
tary of body and mind. Although blood is the life 
of the body, and virtue of earthly things, until 
worldly essences are gathered and refined, the life 
does not appear, it is invisible. The first of forms 
are physical, then the ethical. "When the body is 
nourished, the life is in the blood, in the form of 
the heart: this life has its source or beginnings in 
small things, even invisible ; like the nature of life, 
or divine> in the stones of the earth, passing through 
the forms of the world of invisible things, lives in 
the invisible. Fire is the generative power; it runs 
through the veins of the earth. The blood obtained 
through the virtues of bodies, through death, pro- 
duces life to man, a sacrifice : decomposition of bo- 
dies are compositions of life : the spirit of the body 
is the life of the body, and the parts are matter and 
spirit : these two united, form a body. The life is 
obtained through death, or the body's destruction. 
The invisible forms are not seen until the soul rules 
the body. There are stages of being — first, the in- 
fant, whose diet is milk, and not strong meat ; the 
latter is designed for those who are strong : they 
are bloody. The heart is a visible substance, and 
essential — but when purified, it gives being to the 



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soul; a rectification of the heart makes a pure 
substance. As purification progresses, which is the 
increase of life, there is a diminution of things gross 
— for life cannot be supported but by life. Bodies 
visible are composed of matter and spirit : the only 
value of these things are as they contain life. Mat- 
ter is dead, and only useful as such ; it serves as 
materials for building. The body enlarged, con- 
tains more matter; and, as the spirit increases, 
power is multiplied. Opposite things, such as body 
and soul, matter and spirit, war with each other. 
Kindred substances only unite. All bodies contain 
spirit — and the soul in search of life, finds a conge- 
nial one. Matter is the difference of all bodies, 
and the spirit agreeing in the matter, unite in one 
body. 

The invisible forms proceeding from the heart, 
are only the virtues or mind of temporal things — 
rare qualities in possession — constituting the soul 
of being. The process is from dead things to life — 
and the visible outward man in conduct, becomes 
upright. These forms are united in one being, 
in the virtues of bodies, and in the heart. The 
forms of the body are outward, and the forms of 
the spirit are inward : they are temporal ; they are 
found in the wisdom of the world, and form a ter- 
restrial body. The wisdom above, having the be- 
ginnings in life, continue ever : life, like the power 
of the body, is invisible ; and the forms are of the 



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spirit : they are also contrary one to the other, and 
perfected in one: the lesser gives place to the bet- 
ter. Forms most extended, are circumscribed, or 
have a longitude; they being under, are made 
through virtue — are in being as they have received, 
and the greatest limit is into the circumference. 

To compass an object is as much as one can do. 
Power and form, or body and sou], are made equal. 
A circle, or globe, whose every part are equal from 
the centre, uniform, or alike, in every view a pro- 
portion, and in all a perfection. The circle being 
squared, or made equal, argues the power should 
be so. A certain quantity of power produces form, 
or power may be called quality, for it is the virtue 
of the same, the soul of being, or federal head. 
Quality brings quantity, and these are equal. Quan- 
tity is the multiplier of quality. Form and power 
balance each other. An extended form is the 
world's compass or longitude ; and the upholding 
the same is the limit of power, or latitude. The 
world, as a form, is one whose circumference gravi- 
tates towards the centre. Power is a rare thing, 
and encircles the world ; and the world is centred 
in power. Forms, visible and invisible, have essen- 
ces or virtues, which are the life of the body, and 
the soul of being. The visible forms are of the 
bodies of the universe, excelling each as they near 
perfection. The qualities of bodies are distinguished 
by their essences : the virtues are the invisible forms : 






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the elements form the body, and virtue is its essence. 
All life or power is in the spirit — an invisible sub- 
stance. Bodies without life or animation, are dead. 
When the virtue or life is taken away, the body is 
destroyed : the spirit and matter form the body, 
and a decomposition shows the component parts. 
The virtue or life of the body is the blood, and the 
essence or spirit is the juice of the grape, or sub- 
stance of the vine. The blood of the grape is the 
wine of life — the spirit in a visible form. To obtain 
the essences of bodies, decomposition is necessary. 
The matter that remains of the body when the spirit 
is taken from it, is as dung to the earth ; it en- 
riches the soil. Bodies that have blood, the matter 
of these are flesh ; and a rule universal — like, likes, 
or, kindred bodies have an affinity for each other. 
Flesh and blood — the composition of man's body — 
seeks and sustains every part. The belly for meats, 
and meats for the belly. There are bodies earthly 
or terrestrial, and there are bodies heavenly or 
celestial. All the life of being — sun, moon, and 
stars — are physical virtues, they are as the blood to 
the body, the spirit in visible forms. The spirit of 
wine, being a visible substance, although a rare 
production, is not valued by the soul ; she seeks an 
invisible substance — spirit, it is true — and through 
earth and all the elements, pursues her studies, to 
partake of what she likes best : her toil is not fruit- 
less — for all essences are light, and knowledge is a 



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desire of the soul. Wine is the life of the body, 
and the body the material bread. Bodies that 
have the virtues, have the spirit — and the essence 
is wine — it is drink. Flesh and blood are meat 
and drink. Wine is the blood of the grape, and 
bread is the spirit of the flesh — it is meat. Bread 
is the material of life, and wine the essential ; they 
unite in one body. Spirit and matter united in 
equal parts, make a body. These are physical 
forms and visible, constituting the life of the body ; 
but the life of the soul is of the essences of life. 
There is a sacrifice in every virtue the soul attains. 

The life of the body is the blood, and the body is 
bread, the material ; it is the sum of all that is eaten. 
This is flesh and blood. Blood is the wine of life, 
and essential ; flesh the material. These two unite 
and form one body. Flesh is meat indeed, and blood 
is drink indeed. Flesh is the virtue of bodies, and 
matter and spirit is the sum and substance of all 
bodies. Body is the material bread, and life the es- 
sential wine. Body and life, or flesh and blood is na- 
ture in her visibl-e form : blood is the life and flesh 
the body. All bodies that have blood are called 
beings; a distinction in life. Nature may be anima- 
ted, but all bodies do not contain blood ; they have 
not the term being applied to them. Blood and life 
are one thing ; it is ihe substance or virtues of bo- 
dies, and the virtue is the essence of bodies. Bodies 
are all composed of matter and spirit. The several 



THE CONSTITUTION. 23 

terms of spirit, essence, virtue, life, are formations of 
the spirit, and are parallel with the base. Fire is 
the base of all spirit, an element invisible also. — ■ 
There are visible bodies of fire, such as sun, moon, 
and stars; but as an element it is invisible, although 
not seen at first, and only known by its effects, there 
is a ready production, and its presence is brought to 
view. The senses have power to only exercise them- 
selves in visible things ; the mind can see things 
through a medium like her own. The two opposing 
elements are in their being visible. Fire and air are the 
two invisible — water and earth are visible. The air 
is known by its effects — so is the element of fire ; 
one makes the earth quake, the other burns to the 
lowest depths ; but when their force are against each 
other, a war of elements — the earth is moved — the 
waters toss themselves — the powers of the invisible 
are mightier. Fire is an invisible substance, rarer 
than air, and the spirit is an essence of fire — the 
most subtle thing. Fire is the principle of motion, 
and its beginning is a spark ; it then increases to 
heat. This is the first step taken as a visible pro- 
cess. There is also an invisible parallel, increasing 
with the visible increase. These operations are 
double ; the object is to see a formation of mind by 
the spirit, it being invisible, it can only be understood 
by her work or creation. The elements are the ma- 
terials of bodies, and the essences are the supporters 
of life, the substance which gives them being. The 



24 THE CONSTITUTION. 



spirit is the substance of life ; the spirit is life, and 
the elements are the materials of bodies. So fire 
becomes a base to the spirit. Heat is one of the 
forms of fire — the invisible power of this visible form 
(at first not seen, but a form given by the spirit, either 
moral or physical,) is motion — the beginning of life. 
Heat increased produces light; heat is the source of 
light, and light the substance of life. The three, of 
fire, of heat, of light, have one origin, and together 
are a body. The spirit forms the life. In the com- 
position of life there are three degrees, and each have 
their parts, each part an elementary form, after the 
visible growth of a tree, general and particular. So 
is the tree of life. The three invisible forms of the 
spirit are the essence, virtue, life. Essence is a prin- 
ciple of animation, and its formation is virtue. Vir- 
tue then becomes a source of life, and life is the sub- 
stance of the spirit — a unity — the body. The visible 
form is the image of the spirit, and the perfection of 
the spirit is in the invisible image. The body and 
the life are flesh and blood ; one is essential to the 
other. The base of bread is flesh and blood. And 
again, bread, the substance of life, is a base to the 
spirit. Wine is the spirit of life — bread the mate- 
rial. The excellency of things is in the life, and as 
they are rare, so they are valuable. In arriving at 
perfection, gross things appear first, after as they are 
invisible, they near an immortality. Bread is the 
body, and wine the blood. The blood and the body 



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THE CONSTITUTION. 25 

is life. Body and blood is the heart of created things. 
Life is the invisible substance or hidden mystery ; 
the essential of all things ; from the heart the wants 
of the body, and from the soul the desire of life, and 
life the summit of attainment — it is eternal— it never 
dies. 

Bread and wine is the body of life ; it is the enu- 
meration of meat and drink. Bread and wine is the 
longevity of the body — the sum of visible things — 
a line between the invisible and visible is life. They 
are to each other material and essential. The dis- 
tinction are bodied in bread as material, and wine 
as essential ; together or in union they are life, or 
one body. Life is the power of motion ; without the 
spirit, the body is dead. The soul is the spirit of 
life, and the fruit of the spirit is immortality. Its 
beginnings are in life ; the fruit of a living substance 
is immortal. Life, the seed planted, never dies. — ■ 
There is no death in the composition. A body in 
life is the highest attainment. An union, or an equal 
proportion of bread and wine, is health; a virtue 
arising from the combination — as the physical so the 
ethical. The one a temporal body, or temple — the 
invisible a building not made with hands. The end 
of the visible body, and the beginning of the invisi- 
ble is the spirit, and the body of the invisible spirit 
is power. The seeds of life are sown in an invisible 
ground — the garden of the soul. Body and soul are 
two different substances; one of flesh and blood, the 
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26 THE CONSTITUTION. 

material of the elements. The blood is the essentia! 
of life, and the flesh is the substance of the world* 
Flesh and blood united make the body physical. 
This belongs to one of the first orders of life ; it is 
found in creeping things, (a visible demonstration of 
motion.) The insect tribe live upon the blood, and 
as the link of being ascends, the substance of life is 
more spiritualized. There are many things that live, 
but all have not a soul ; some are without blood. 
The trees of the forest and fruit trees have life, but 
without blood. When the effects of the principle 
diminishes, the principle itself is consumed. The 
stones contain a principle of life ; the same with geni- 
tals, but unable to move themselves. Fire is the la- 
tent principle of all life, and the spirit is the substance 
of the principle. Without it nature dies, contracts, 
becomes cold, is a dead thing. Blood royal begins 
with the hound, ordinary, from decomposed bo- 
dies, arising from uncleanness, and the deeper the 
dye — the more black the impression. As much 
as the blood of beasts excels things without, so 
far in itself is a distinction found. The blood is es- 
sential ; but when nature is more elevated, it begins 
to appear gross — it is one with the body. Flesh and 
blood united are one body ; the essence of life begins 
to rare, to become invisible, and is not created until 
a spirit. Life is the heart of the body. The spirit 
is the substance of the soul. The Leviathan bodies 
the life ; blood is the life, the strength of his calling. 



THE CONSTITUTION. 27 

The body is one ; there is a body visible and a body 
invisible — the one material and the other essential; 
matter and spirit enter the composition of both. The 
difficulty is to separate them : matter is death to the 
spirit. The visible is man — the image of the invisi- 
ble. The substance of the body is bread and wine. 
Flesh and fish are matters of the body— there sub- 
stance is blood. Life for life, and blood for blood — 
a higher power governs the body — the soul of the crea- 
ture. So with man above the brute; yet all these 
have souls. The difference again is visible — they 
have no understanding. An intelligent creature is 
most adored — is more eminent, therefore, in degree 
above ; all have their specific value. This gives rise 
to the soul's power or limit— a standard of perfection 
— a body invisible. Flesh and blood is the life of the 
body, and the soul is the power of the same. All 
visible things go to make up the body. As bodies 
are composed of materials and essentials, they are 
different in themselves, but unite with each other in 
a sure proportion, and form body. The perfection of 
the body is life, and the perfecting of life is the body's 
destruction; matter is dead; spirit is life. When 
essentials become invisible, it is called the soul of 
being. Still the foundation is not affected by the su<- 
perstructure. To arrive at certainty, a solution is 
understood ; it may be by an invisible substance, or a 
visible one. The power of the body is able to acccm- 
plish this work. While the result of created things 



28 THE CONSTITUTION. 

are the same, as soon as being is given, they have 
form and become visible. Things that before was 
not, are raised from the dead. Doubts are dead ; but 
as soon as brought to light, the composition is known. 
Matter and spirit form the body : certain parts com- 
pose the same : the number is two to one. Salt dis- 
solves in twice its quantity of water : at first a body ; 
after union, it is a solution. A doubt is nothing 
positive — a mixture or part of a negative thing. 
A dissolution of the body is a solution of the thing. 
Two substances make up the body : the density of 
the same is matter. A mixed being is neither one 
thing or the other. A doubt is similar : it has not 
matter nor spirit enough to form a body : it is half 
visible and part invisible: matter appears. Con- 
science not bodied or silent, has much matter : mat- 
ter is visible. The life is not seen. The soul pos- 
sesses a creative power, and can raise what form 
she pleases. The property or quality of visible bo- 
dies is dense ; it goes downward, or gravitates. 
Fear is the characteristic of all animated or essen- 
tial bodies : they have a being through visible 
things: it is the life, or prey, until purified and 
made clear of matter. The order is temporal. An 
abstract is the first effort of the soul or the spirit, 
in her element. Every thing in nature has an appo- 
site : this originates in the will, by putting a nega- 
tive in the cause of an afrlrmaive. Negative argues 
an affirmative. Fear is opposite to love ; one is 



THE CONSTITUTION. 29 

-cold, the other is hot ; one contracts, is dark. Love 
expands, is light, and universally is so — a balance 
or poise to every thing, making equal. The soul is 
an essential substance, and is the might of the 
body ; but, without light or knowledge, she is like 
the beasts that parish. A growth or increase is an 
advance to life ; and the virtue of life is the soul of 
the body. The virtues are the life — and the soul, 
an invisible substance, lives upon no other. Love 
is the strongest; it bodies the cardinal virtues, 
and has fear for an enemy. The King of Terrors 
is Death. Love is as strong. The physical forms 
the letter, and knowledge is the substance, or 
body; and light is the life of the soul. Fear is essen- 
tial, but not a virtue, as all virtues are invisible. 
The essences are received as a nourishment to life. 
The knowledge of the world is the light of life, 
and is found in the essence of things. The world is 
visible, and has parts: the visible is the matter; 
and, as all visible things recede and die, so arises 
from their destruction an essence called fear — the 
nature of fear being essential, and having an origin 
in wisdom, putting the least first, and the best things 
last, burying the virtues of the soul, or hiding the 
life. Fear is contrary to law : by the law in obser- 
vance, the body lives ; opposed to any precept, dies: 
disobeying the law, gives birth to fear ; still it is 
an affection, because it is a part of life. The invisi- 
ble part, or life of the body, is ike soul ; the visible 
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30 THE CONSTITUTION. 

body, and the invisible soul, in union, is the world. 
The matter of doubt is fear, but the quantity is not 
told ; although an invisible substance, it can be 
measured — since in analysis components are found, 
and the putting together a synthesis. Two parts 
obscure, and one of light, are the composition of a 
doubt : the parts seemingly unequal, are just ; the 
quantity of matter is double to the quality : the 
obscure is the matter, and the density is the obscure. 
Doubts are damned. Counter currents impede each 
other ; they hinder ; the way is stopped ; it pro- 
ceeds from the head of government : the way being 
lost, nothing is found. The penalties of the law 
are death ; the process, condemnation ; and the be- 
ginning is a departure from uprightness. The de- 
sires of knowledge are in the heart of man ; and he 
loses his soul in grasping his desires. The amount 
of his labor is nothing; he gains the whole world, 
and loses his spirit : for why ? because there are 
no new worlds to conquer. Whatever is gained 
in time, is lost in power. Labour is the amount 
expended. Human nature is opposed to the Divine. 
Things of the body are for the body ; and things of 
a Divine nature are the soul's election. The natural 
man is at enmity ; obeying his own will, the dispo- 
sition of the body seeks happiness ..in kindred sub- 
stances — and the reward is the wealth of the world. 
His life is expended for life, the power of the body. 
The soul is sacrificed for the power of the earth — 



THE CONSTITUTION. 31 

but all earthly things are made subordinate, and, 
until the discovery is made, the soul is ignorant, 
and knows nothing. Visible things undergo a de- 
composition ; the natural forms return to their ele- 
ments. Body is finite, being born of water, having 
beginning ; therefore to time subjected of one with- 
out a beginning of power. Time itself is not ever ; 
it is the measure of life, or number of days, for the 
soul and body are equalized — and the life expended, 
is the power lost. The discovery of these things 
discomposes also ; knowledge fails, for reason is 
eclipsed. As reason is uniform, so is it a course 
pursued by every one. 

The mystery of the Divine or spiritual kingdom 
is in the Revelation. The life is hid ; the body 
finds life in the things of the body ; the centre of it 
is the heart, and the blood is the substance of the 
same. The life of the body is the blood: the es- 
sence of life is the spirit. The grape is the fruit of 
the vine, or life of the body, being the substance ; 
the juice, or virtue, is the blood of the grape. Wine 
is the essence or spirit of life : the virtues of life 
are the substances of the soul : and a fixed body 
is the soul's centre. The book of life is a sealed 
book — and a deed without a name is void. Dark- 
ness is void, and the deed not valid. Life enters 
in the form of light, and the substance is knowledge. 
The fruit of the tree is good and evil. Life expend- 
ed for nought, is evil. She sows a mortal body ; 



32 THE CONSTITUTION. 

corruption is reaped : the taste of the fruit declares 
its kind : the good knowledge is found in retracing 
her steps, as contraries are reconciled; when the 
will is submitted, the knowledge of good and evil 
forms the body of experience. Estated, the life is 
bestowed in wisdom : this consists in the spirit, 
matter is dead ; above the things of sense : abstracted 
from visible objects, or outward form, she lives upon 
the virtues or lives of others. Life is an inward 
or spiritual growth, and, until refined and bottled, 
is not the soul's drink. Life is an invisible sub- 
stance — and, in the visible essences, life is debased. 
The spirit of life forms the soul, and makes the 
wisdom of the world beneath. That which is above 
is sought for. Fame, although lofty in view, is 
most unconscious of its height. The magnet has 
but one point — and the lesson to learn is self. Light 
is the conduct of life, and the delineation is height- 
ened by the shade. The mountain is to be brought 
low, and the high places plain : the difficulty is in 
the will. Light and darkness are not more oppo- 
site than the human to the Divine will. Life is 
ever, and its activity is perpetual. Life can only 
be supported by life. The soul is a spirit of life 
originating in power. From the parent, her pro- 
perties are similar: she is the power of the body 
human, or visible form. The succession of one, 
at the demise of the other, makes a line of life. 
The body's interposition is not the soul's extinction, 



THE CONSTITUTION. 33 

although matter is the damnation of the body. 
Through the body, life is discovered: the body of 
life is wisdom : the body's death is the life of the 
soul, and the soul's death is the life of the body. 
The merchandize of the body is gold and silver, 
with all precious stones : the power of the soul is 
not to touch them: the mortal makes the immortal 
man: the unmade immortal is the second death, 
or annihilation. The power of the body is equal 
to its wants, while the measure or quantity is num- 
bered : time is the measurer of the body's fulness, 
agreeing with an existing law in physics and in 
ethics. Whatever is gained in time, is lost in 
power, and the gain in power is a loss of time. 
Time's death is the soul's life, and the matter of 
death is the body of time: the substance of death 
is time : time's extinction is the death of death. 
The soul is the power of the body, exercised or 
consumed; amounts to temporal wealth — a plum. 
In building, there is an instrument called a plum ; 
its property is to show the centre of gravity — where 
is hid the power of earth and heaven. An ethical 
line is a separating the bounds or limit of temporal 
things. A plum is a sufficiency. The soul and 
body are equal, in two separate parts, known and 
distinguished by their properties: the one, essential 
or spirit ; the other, matter — dead — differing from 
each other : one, a principle of a spiritual body ; 
the other, a matter of death. Matter and spirit 



34 ' THE CONSTITUTION. 

in the formation of body, are also equal : she hugs 
her own death, and lives in the embrace ; she must 
taste death, before she can know what life is. After 
death, the resurrection. The matter of her decom- 
position is the body of the phoenix ; the flame is 
the life, and the virtue is the spirit. 

Matter unites with the spirit, only in certain 
proportions : quantity is equalized by quality. The 
body is like a vessel, whose capacity receives only 
bo much. Life is the fulness of the body. Quantity 
and quality regulate each other. Quantity is only 
applicable to the body, while quality is of the soul. 
To find out quality, quantity is given. In the 
decomposition of quantity, consists the quality ; or 
thus — quantity is twice as much as quality, a visible 
disproportion of parts, but equalized in quality : 
quality excels. Dissimilar things are equalized by 
weight : opposites are made to poise : power and 
time balance each other. Power is the soul's virtue, 
the body's property being time. The number of 
days is the body's reckonings or measure of time. 
Body is the offspring of power, and has a beginning ; 
its existence gives birth to time, and a body's labor 
is equal to the reward. Wealth is the life of the 
body — and, as certain as the seed is sown, so is its 
fruit of one kind, partaking of the tree's substance, 
whether of a curruptible or an incorruptible nature : 
the body's character is finite ; its origin shows a 
beginning — a beginning of life ; for the soul, a 



TftE CONSTITUTION. 35 

living thing, is a continuance of power, handed, as 
it were, from the Maker of the body — as the hands 
of the body fashions the material, causing an inde- 
pendence of being. The body is the work of the 
Spirit, and the Spirit is of power— one in order 
above and beneath. The spirit is the very first of 
created things, the life of every creature. Wisdom 
is her compacted body— the Word of Truth — the 
Son of the Most High, she was brought up — and 
was, or ever the world was* From a Power Al- 
mighty the spirit moves. Before wisdom was 
searched out — even befere the motions of the crea- 
tive power, the spirit— there was silence, nothing 1 
to say, yea or nay. Alone, invisible, dwells the 
Eternal One. Man is made in His image : the 
Virtues of the soul continue in life. Death, the 
enemy of all his race, follows the heel of Time : 
time begins in the departure of life* and the end of 
being is the soul's exit. Life is expended when 
exercised for the body's provision : the power em- 
ployed is the substance of life : the spirit of the soul 
is the virtue thereof: the decrease of power becomes 
the body's gain. Money buys bread. Virtue is its 
own reward. The soul in every thing like the 
image in which man was formed, has the pre-emi- 
nence in all things. In regard to time or existence, 
nothing is excluded. The soul's prison is her own 
body; and the opening of the door is confession. 
Her humiliation is her exaltation ; her element 



36 THE CONSTITUTION. 

is spirit, established in equity. The gain of the 
soul is the body, for the life is subject. The gain 
of the body is a loss of time — and time is the body's 
property: time is equal to money. "Wealth is ihe 
life of the body, and the power of the body, large 
or small. Nations and individuals are subject to 
a sovereign power: these are perfected in time: 
as the seed, so the fruit : the body's labor reaps the 
abundance of all things — and, like the body, are 
temporals: the soul being the power of the body, 
is expended in temporals— for the life of the body 
is the death of the soul; and again, the life of the 
soul is the body's death. Self-denial, or death of 
the body, is the increase of the soul : the increase 
adds virtue, and so empowers. Life is the only 
substance that supports life. Matter is the body's 
requisite, but nothing to the soul : kind sorts with 
kind. The visible have a body : the spirit is life, 
and invisible. Time is the body's perdition— and 
light, the soul's knowledge, destroys the body. The 
death of time, is the soul's life : the death or sick- 
ness of the soul, is the body : the amount of life 
or power, shade of time or life consumed, is death. 
The body is followed by the shadow as closely as 
death follows life : the death of life is the light of 
the soul — life for life. Life, in leaving the body, 
overcomes death : the body is the death of life, and 
the soul's victory is life. Life triumphant, never 
dies. The soul and body's latitude and longitude 



THB CONSTITUTION. 37 

are discovered. Longitude is the time of the body's 
continuance in being, and latitude is without limit* 
Latitude and longitude is measured by time. Lati- 
tude consists in power: with power and time it is 
the same, in a certain time; power is acquired, 
and loss and gain is equal to a loss of time. Profit 
is credit, and loss is debit. Power is the latitude 
of the soul, and longitude is of the body, as there is 
danger in navigating this vessel, the constitution : 
to avoid one extreme, and not to incur the other, 
a steady and single course must be observed : the 
body, consisting of parts, possessing certain powers, 
is qualified in temporalities; but, without the light 
of soul, soon would the body be taken with ieath. 
The shadow and the substance are not more to^ ether. 
In the least excess of the body, is the death of the 
soul ; and also the neglect of the soul, is the condem- 
nation of both. Sylla and Carybdas are two rocks, 
situate in a sea of trouble: the way is between 
them, and the entrance is so narrow, that only one 
can pass at a time : both must be satisfied : the sum 
paid to the one, is left to the other ; so that to be 
liberal, one must be just: they are opposite each 
other, but in their agreement is life. 

Life is the seed, or natural body; its substance is 
spirit, altogether essential, distinct, separate from 
matter, or any thing that makes dense or heavy. 
1 hroughout the universe, one thing is set against 
the other; so that what is gained in one, is lost in 
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38 THE CONSTITUTION. 

the other. The extremities of all, singly and col- 
lectively, are life and death: these two contain the 
secret power of opposiiion — love and fear — the cause 
of all war — an enmity universal : the most promi- 
nent feature of one is motion ; and, in truth, life is 
a perpetual motion, a title given to that which was 
believed impossible: reason cannot admit the fact; 
it is self-evident; mechanism has sought it in the 
material world, and could not find it; reason failed ; 
there was no hope; was dead in unbelief; but, as 
soon as a fulcrum was given, the earth is raised. 
Erected, (proportions of matter and spirit, two visible 
substances generate life or motion in the abstract,) 
matter is dead ; the spirit is life ; the nature or dis- 
position of the soul is an active one, and when the 
reins are given, it travels very simply. Life is mo- 
tion in the abstract; no stop, no stay ; onward, and 
still onward ; it is like a ring — the place where it is 
left, there to begin again ; a circle — without end — 
a revolution : the course it takes is the only one ; 
where the two ends meet, is a good performance, and 
figures a glory. Death is called a King of Terrors — 
a name applicable, a thing of nought — one whose 
increase is through fear — mighty in body, and crown- 
ed a king; his reign is fixed. Time, consort of 
royalty, is the compass of his affection. The union 
of time and death is the sum of life. He is a tyrant ; 
only lives by life's destruction. Time is the vitality 
of death — orhis increase, cold and spiritless, feeds 



THE CONSTITUTION'. 39 

on time. Death is seated : the world, and all that 
therein is, bows to his leaden sceptre. The body is 
of matter, the origin of death, or principle, if such 
can be: where principle is none, death's increase 
makes him not perpetual : his existence is only in 
life's servitude, a fell destroyer, that blasts the pre- 
cious jewel, robbed of his prey, dies before he will 
move one step. Life is active, death is passive: 
every contrariety will be found in much matter ; and 
where matter prevails, the spirit is wanting. The 
opposite term to motion is rest: bodies in motion 
would continue in straight lines, similar to a pencil 
or ray of light. It is recorded, that nothing travels 
half so fast as light: the reason is, light has sub- 
stance, and nothing has not. The possession of 
nought, is no more than existence : this quip is equip- 
ped in light ; its beginning is fire ; the element 
only active, and power perpetual ; a lamp that never 
goes out ; for follow it through the earth, and light 
will lead where comfort is found. All the elements 
are only active as they contain fire : there is a de- 
scending series, from the chief to the lowest, and 
what gives the separate name is the absence of fire. 
Activity is not all that is requisite : the difference 
in the elements are varied accordingly, and a pro- 
portion of slackness is discovered; this is only a 
negative mode of expression — but a positive gives it 
a new name. The most remote is the earth, and 
has little fire, but a sure foundation. It has no spirit 



40 THE CONSTITUTION. 

to move, is opposed to motion, is a body at rest. 
The sun — an instrument of power — illustrates a per- 
fect life, a body full of light ; a form cannot be 
desired, a principle, all fire, all heat, all light, a phy- 
sical power, three degrees, one nature : the only 
active thing, a body of motion, an endless race, 
whose course is ever, from the place where he 
arises; thither he hastens again. A body of fire, 
the principle of vitality ; fire, heat, light — three in 
power, one body. 

Life is the substance of the body, the extent or 
height of things, the standard or perfection of the 
body. Life is the essential of all things, and are 
valued as they contain fire: there are that have 
no worth: they are without: the difference is ma- 
terial. Body is of parts, matter and spirit, the one 
opposed to the other. Matter is dense, and would 
always be at rest, if it was not over-ruled by the 
power of motion : there unity in one body, is a strange 
thing; but, entertained, they qualify each other. 
Motion is negatived by rest, and inertness is made 
moveable : what was prone is made upright ; and 
straight lines or things obtain grace. The sun, a projec- 
tile body, ascends the height, negatived by the earth, 
gives measure of space, or describes a circle: the 
earth is matter, and the sun an animating principle ; 
the one always at rest, the other all motion : the 
difference between them is balanced ; quantity is 
to quality. Matter is double to the spirit, or the 



THE CONSTITUTION. 41 

multiple of quality is quantity. Fire is but matter 
to the spirit. The elements are four, and enter the 
composition of the earth. The sun being physical, 
in virtue is four; quality is excluded; it is only 
reckoned in the invisible: bodied quality is majesty. 
Four are the number of quarters, as parts make the 
whole. The elementary forms the body; the chief 
element, or that which gives existence ; the vitality 
of the body or life, as it departs; being is made less, 
and an appropriation made, at each remove, a regu- 
lar decrease ; vitality is lost, when half the sum or 
meridian is attained ; instead of going upwards, now 
it is downwards : what was then invisible, is now 
visible; thus measured, the body dies. If the sum 
be one hundred, fire contains twenty-five, or one- 
fourth : the amount is the same, however divided. 
If one-fourth be called a quarter, or part, either of 
these proportions make the whole. Every thing in 
nature is counted; nothing is excluded; nothing, 
the product of nothing, is without life, excluded, 
not in being, simply matter. Worth centres in bodies, 
matter is nothing worth. The four elements of fire, 
air, water, earth, as they are registered, so are they 
valued. The first quarter is pure. 'Air is twenty- 
five per cent, less active, or moveable. As soon as 
motion is lost, matter is the cause of it, called no 
thing. The two quarters make a part of life. At 
this position they are equaJ ; fire and air are invisi- 
ble; they ascend, are light elements. Water and 
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42 THE CONSTITUTION. 

earth, what they lose in quality, or rather per cent- 
age, is increased by quantity— balancing the elements. 
The loss of fire makes them quantities ; quantity is 
as matter, visible ; quality is of the spirit, invisible. 
If the fire be removed from the water, it becomes 
ice. The element of earth has then seventy-five 
per cent, less fire, consequently is proportionably 
inactive. The elements are the substance of the 
body. Bodies are equal : the material part is one, 
the essential another ; the difference is in quantity ; 
one-half is vitality. The body is one. Two volumes 
of element makes a body of fire : the sun has the 
power of life. Quantity is the multiple of quality: 
the quality of parts are four; fire the efficient. 
Quantity is the amount of the geometrical parts. 
The number is figured in unity, or nought. Nothing 
is a circle, without substance, a thing without value, 
wanting life ; dead, itself matter, alone. Unity is 
something, united to nothing ; gives being. A nega- 
tive with a positive, produces a medium : a death 
of the positive, is a life of the negative. Light, 
the substance, or the conversion of base things into 
gold. Unity is the body of ten; an unit is one; 
one, and nought, are ten. Ten is the quantity, the 
sum of a geometrical progression. One is quantity ; 
nought, because of matter. Ten, is the diameter of 
the world, whether ten hundred, ten thousand, or 
ten millions. The diameter is a day or measure 
of time, years or months ; and the time of the earth 



THE CONSTITUTION. 43 

is time's time and a half. In season and out of 
season is bodied in time. The Arithmetic. The ele- 
ments, are simple substances, and the characteristic 
difference is the essential and material, — the one 
bodying life, the other death ; and in nature, nothing 
is more opposite : a vacuum is hated ; nothing is the 
extinction of death, or annihilation. The return of 
the body to its primary elements, and then the matter 
into power, is the death of death. In the substances 
of the elements, there are two opposite natures: fire, 
the chief, is positive — all in all ; the death of fire is 
a return into the substance of its composition. Fire 
goes out of itself; all the others are decomposed by 
the addition of the element. The spirit, or gases, 
are the substances of the elements; fire, nothing 
affects; the removal of fuel is its death: its spirit, 
or life, is the substance of power. The air is com- 
posed of oxygen and nitrogen ; the one, by virtue or 
relation to fire, is combustible ; nitrogen is the oppo- 
site — a negative — a substance without life — a thing 
of nought — matter : certain proportions will reform. 
The air being invisible is seen in effect : combustion 
of one of its substances, and not the other, leaves the 
matter a part that is dead. Water is composed of 
hydrogen, and shows its affinity; its per ceutage is 
less ; it is as the body when the life is out. The 
positive and negative are the distinctions of those 
two substances : the one is a principle of life, the 
other of death. Fire is independent. Air is a sup- 



44 THE CONSTITUTION. 

porter of combustion ; but, is only a part or substance 
of the element that burns; the residue is death, or a 
negative. Water, as an element, opposes combus- 
tion; but, in the composition, a substance is found 
that burns. Hydrogen is of a positive character. 
The earth is negative. Life and death are the two 
substances. The fruit of the tree of knowledge is 
good and evil : the seeds of these are life and death. 
When death is conquered, the battle is won. The 
conversion of death is the swallowing of it up in life. 
The matter of death is its substance. Life planted, 
yields immortal fruit — or, the fruit of the tree of life 
is immortality. 

The substances of life and death are both spirit : 
one is positive, the other negative : one goes upwards, 
the other downwards. As all the elements are a 
modification of one, so is the spirit : this substance is 
the universal operator, the only active invisible thing, 
the body of power. The principle of life is in the 
seed, and is the substance of the parent : when sown 
in the earth, the body dies. The composition of its 
parts is matter and spirit: the death of the body is 
the life of the soul. The sun, all life, or majesty, im- 
parts life, and is the source of the same. Vegetation 
springs up as soon as his heat is felt, or warmed by 
his power. The life latent in the seed, acknowledges 
a kindred substance ; it may be an elementary ope- 
ration or the work of the Spirit. Excellency is given, 
and all honor bestowed, as they are terms belonging 



THE CONSTITUTION. 45 

to power. Heat, a creation of the spirit, animates 
the substance. It grows as it feeds on, or is nourish- 
ed by the element : as the fire becomes a body of life, 
so the seed of life or darkness is matured in light. 
The soul increases in life, or the growth of the vital 
principle is sustained; the matter of the body is 
regenerated. The body of an egg contains the life ; 
through heat the fowl is produced. In the process 
of life as a principle, the opposing substance of 
matter goes downwards. It is of the body, and kindred 
substances seek their kind ; the spirit, as one sub- 
stance, as its orTspringthe element prevails, soon shows 
its origin. Fire passes through all things, a visible dis- 
play of power ; like a passion, it goes out, when there 
is nothing to feed it. Fire burns, but the spirit only 
when made angry, or exercised in power ; then like 
the former division, it is a source or principle of life 
or death, in which the nature or disposition may be 
seen. It is a tree, productive of good and evil. The 
cultivation of life is good ; a contrarv disposition is 
evil : these make a division. The two different spirits, 
one with life, the other contrary, without any thing; 
one rich, the other poor; are bodied in human naure: 
the cause is in the disposition. The spirit in unity, 
is power. The spirit is an invisible substance, the 
most subtle thing ; its nature is eternal, because of 
life ; there is no death in the composition of life. 
Human nature is contrary to the Divine. The begin- 
ning and end are in temporals. Time is the limit of 



46 THE CONSTITUTION. 

the natural man : the end of time is the beginning of 
eternity. A conversion is a life of the spirit, or time 
redeemed : the cause of evil, is the gratification of 
the body. Life is expended, and the fear is death. 
The body's life is the soul's destruction, and the 
soul's life is the body's death. Death is the enemy 
of life. When life has any thing to do with a con- 
trary thing, a war takes place, and death follows. 
Life leading, prevails; life is a substance of light— 
and when matter is discovered, a fatality takes place. 
Matter is dead, and dark ; the least particle is a spot, 
on the robe of light. Death is a foreign ingredient : its 
origin is when matter enters in combination: matter 
is to matter, spirit to spirit. When the spirit de- 
scends to matter, her dignity suffers. Matter is 
dead. It cannot go to the spirit. Knowledge con- 
sists in the essence of things. Matter, when visi- 
ble, is in form of bodies, retaining a property given 
to it. In its invisible state, its name is death. The 
effect of matter on the spirit, from the medium 
of communication of light, until, unto its opposite 
of darkness, there are shades of differences. In 
matter itself there is an opposition. White, a matter 
of colour, is fair, to its contrast black, the colour of 
fate. Matter is dead — but there is a death of mat- 
ter ; the life of the same is spirit : because the spirit 
subjects herself, she finds death. The knowledge 
is light, and light is the substance of life, a dawn 
of the soul, a discovery of a kindred substance; is a 



THE CONSTITUTION. 47 

return to her first estate: this constitutes the know- 
ledge of good. Matter makes the difference. The 
turning from evil is following the Spirit. When 
stopped in the mire, it is hard to go. Light, or know- 
ledge, is the support of life, because light is an es- 
sence or spirit. After temporals is the beginning of 
power. The light of good and evil is bodied in ex- 
perience. Life sown to the flesh, reaps corruption ; 
when sown in the spirit, it is the power of the body. 
Visible and invisible forms, are opposite to each 
other. The world is at enmity with the spiritual 
power. The visible throne or heart of man, is the 
hand of invisible power, and the form or seat of power 
is the supremacy. The state and church are bodies 
of respective properties — one visible ; the other invi- 
sible : their beginning and ends are in power, alike ; 
while vitality continues. Forms visible die, so do 
forms invisible: death is the period or end, this cease 
of life, or matter of death ; is mystical. One body 
can only live, whether found in visible or unseen 
things. Part is hid, and found in the body: the 
acquisition is knowlebge, and it ceases. The life's 
desire is every thing, the substance of power. The 
visible dies to the invisible : things that are seen, 
are temporal; they pass away, or die; so do invisible 
things; as soon as seen, or made to appear, are ready 
to vanish or depart. All created forms seek their 
rest, and only find it in power. The visible and in- 
visible forms, are the work of power; so from the 



48 THE CONSTITUTION. 

beginning, forms are brought into being. Time is 
their limit of existence, and their death takes place 
as soon as uttered. Mutation or change is the ope- 
ration of bodies; a certain time measures their 
duration; and a return to their elements, is a rest 
from their labors. Time was, when time was not ; 
time has a beginning, and dates its existence. The 
body, or sum of time, is the length of life, by virtue 
of a law invisible, or the eternity of power. The 
operations of the spirit are manifest, they are visible ; 
and being so, are opposed to the invisible. A divided 
body cannot stand. All power is invisible, and what- 
ever appears or becomes visible, is a loss of the same* 
The world visible, and all its forms, are a work of 
creation. The spirit, or invisible operator, is the 
hand of power. The being of these things is the 
diminishing of strength. Finite is a term given to 
man: an infinite belongs to power. There must 
then be a death of finite before immortality. Before 
the world was, power is, a substance altogether of 
life: no death in life. Time and eternity are vari- 
able terms of power. Power in limit, is time, or 
longitude ; while the latitude of power is without 
measure. Time is the mortality of bodies, or the 
visible length is death. The eternity of the body is 
life. The world originating from a source without 
a beginning, may hope to inherit the substance of 
the parent. Life being most precious, it is put at 
the greatest distance ; and not only so, but every 



THE CONSTITUTION. 49 

barrier or hindrance is in the way. Opposite to 
sense, or sight, the light of reason, or man's under- 
standing, is found in death. The body of death is 
the matter of life. Bodies seek their destruction, 
and are thereby made free. The body is the soul's 
prison — and the nature of the parent is the only 
satisfying thing. The soul itself is created, but the 
secret is with her. Form and power are the two 
distinctions of bodies : the latent principle is the 
seed of the tree of life. Form and power united, 
are one being : forms are visible, and a decrease of 
body is the increase of power. All bodies desire 
power; the death of bodies is the substance of 
power. The visible part of bodies is form, and the 
matter and spirit of them are equal. Flesh and 
blood constitute a visible body. Flesh is the matter, 
and blood is the life. The union of these two are 
body. Blood is a bodily distinction ; when qualified, 
becomes royal. Flesh and blood cannot live for 
ever. Death is the sentence, (or visible matter,) 
against the body. Death was brought into the 
world, since the creation, and the cause of its exist- 
ence is in the knowledge of good and evil. To 
pursue good, advances to prosperity : to decline, is 
adverse to life. Experience stands in knowledge — ■ 
a measure of time or vibrations, an inclination first 
to earth, and then to heaven, a doing of right and 
wrong, of good and evil : whereas life is in neither. 
The path is like the sun's course — attracted by one, 
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50 THE CONSTITUTION. 

and repelled by the other ; moves in a circle : all 
life for a mortal body ; would raise it high ; the mat- 
ter of ballast keeps it to the earth. The round of 
life is marked by time — and as soon as time is sub- 
stantiated, death, the shadow of time, overtakes, 
and swallows up ; time is no longer. Death, as a 
body, is the substance of life : it appears in the ex- 
change. Life is the offspring of power ; and life 
dispossessed is affected by time. Exercise is the 
nature of life, and the change of scene from one to 
another is in the formation of things. The balance 
of power, or exchange, is equal in power. There 
is a time for all things, and the life is so divided, 
it is the strength of the body. Time is consumed 
in the body's requisites, and its fulness is the mea- 
sure of labor. The poverty of the low, is the matter 
of complaint. High and low, rich and poor, are 
relative terms. A reward of service is honor, and 
idleness is the root of evil. To do nothing, by some 
it is called idle : a body at rest, is past labor : the 
expression of the spirit is the idleness of the soul. 
High and low, are opposite to each other ; both are 
necessary to existence. The high raises the low, 
and the low brings down the high: a level or line 
of life, is a true course. Time's time is death. 
The day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. 
Desire or want, is the first motion or spring, accord- 
ing to order ; so is their proceeding. Motion is 
only known by its effects : its origin is in the invisi- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 51 

ble. Fire, the latent force of bodies, expands them 
by heat. The properties of bodies are their exten- 
sion and form ; one visible, the other invisible : the 
greatest extent is to the circumference. The effect 
of the element is first felt. As soon as want is dis- 
covered, a body is poor, and has to beg for suste- 
nance. The loss of his life, distresses a man. A 
perfect body is one, equal in all its parts; in every 
possible situation it must be just. The head of 
government is a representative of a perfect body, 
an invisible form, the portrait of the visible world. 
The form of the body is circular or round : from the 
centre to the circumference, every part is equal : 
the irradiation is like the light of the sun. Lines 
from the centre are angles of incidence ; and a per- 
fect angle is a triangle : the variety of positions are 
so many angles ; or meeting in one body, makes 
an angle. An angle is the height of a man: a 
triangle is equal parts of life. Life is circular, with- 
out an end : there is no end to the people. The 
spirit is life : the body's form is of the world : a 
compass is a line of life. The diameter of a circle 
divides one sphere from another ; it is the level of 
the earth, or horizontal ; a visible line ; the effect 
of time. Day is the revelation of time, and may 
be numbered ; it is found to exceed. Night is the 
opposite of day, or the death of day ; is darkness, 
or eclipse. The soul of man is void : darkness co- 
vers the deep : light is the desire of the body ; and 



52 THE CONSTITUTION. 

to know himself is all knowledge. The tree whose 
body is death, as soon as tasted, the substance of life 
is lost, and the diminution of life is substituting of 
time. Time of enjoyment is as long as the substance 
continues. The fulness of time, or the satisfaction 
of the body, is death. Good and evil are the sub- 
stances of knowledge, or light of life. Life is eter- 
nal ; the fruit of the tree of life is immortal. Mor- 
tality is the light or knowledge of bodies, visible 
created substances. The forms of knowledge are 
words, and they are opposed, for the evil is against 
the good. Forms are equal, whether good or evil : 
the good will not unite with the evil, nor the evil 
with the good ; they are consistent in themselves. 

Bodies have parts, and parts have form: the 
visible form is equity : things seen, to be equal 
evidence themselves. The visible head, is made 
in the image of the invisible; and as a line is the 
figure of life ; so is the form of the soul. Parts 
also are opposite: the back and face, one only can 
be seen at a time : are equal in substance, both pos- 
sessing power. The physical and ethical powers 
are each five, or the half of ten: this number is 
universal, or the sum of all enumeration ; all other 
is but the disposition of them ; they may be added 
or diminished, but the given amount alters not 
them. There are no new forms save these : five of 
them are visible, and five of them are invisible: 
the same may be seen in the number of inlets, the 



THE CONSTITUTION. 53 

senses ; outward are five, and the mental or moral 
of them are the same ; the inward image is the invi- 
sible form, and the outward a demonstration of the 
spirit; visible things die — the moral voice is but the 
echo, and the echo is the image of a voice. Art, al- 
so patterns or imitates nature : the reason is obvi- 
ous, because the law is general or particular. 

The forms of the spirit are manifest, and what is 
manifest is self-evident: the five forms or tribe, 
enter the composition of man, beast, bird, fish, in- 
sect or creeping thing ; four forms of power or gates 
of the law, these are at his tribunal. The outward 
are images of the inward ; animated nature or forms 
universal, and the five visible, and the five invisible, 
makes up the tribes or species of beings, forms being 
of one power, therefore the general term of uniform; 
this consists in a equity of parts, or equal sides — a 
triangle or three equal sides, is the equity of a cir- 
cle ; the circumference is three times the diameter; 
three balls is the symbol of power : all the forms of 
represented power is perfect, the substance being 
life, it takes the pre-eminence, and is signified by 
beauty. There are male and female in physical 
forms: the Queen of Night, and the majesty of day, 
but of one substance. An ethical conception is the 
word of power : power only exists in the invisible : 
visible things loose their force, are put out, or die. 
The body of death is the matter of visible things; 
there is a positive or negative, or the world whose 
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54 THE CONSTITUTION. 

matter is death and the spirit of it is the life or pow- 
er. Spirit and matter are the composition of bodies, 
whether invisible or invisible things, there is a posi- 
tive or negative power — these two are opposite, one 
a power of death, the other a power of life ; the 
matter of death in a visible or in an invisible 
form, is a negative to life. Power before and af- 
ter creation is invisible ; the world was without 
form ; the image of the invisible world, or wisdom 
is expressed in the visible form, a perfect being or 
power, one all might ; produces its like. Power, be- 
ing the substance of life ; a thing eternal, the world 
is ever. Man made to stand or fall, by virtue of an 
invisible power, or soul, is upright, also to partake 
himself to visible forms. 

Matter is a death to light, and knowledge is the 
bodies light, or life. Seeing these things desirable 
to make one wise, the image of the invisible, was 
shamed in that he did. The matter is death ; the 
world perfected in wisdom or invisible forms, is 
made of the image created in. The divided body 
of man is woman — power only is invisible — things 
seen or brought to light are self-evident — visible sub- 
stances are a death to life — power can and does ex- 
ist in visible substances, but visible things are 
temporal. Time and death are matters of life, the 
law is life, a visible body, and because seen is limit- 
ed by death: a sacrifice, or restitution is a return, 
or justification of power ; before the world was, the 



THB CONSTITUTION. 55 

invisible lives in power ; after creation matter ap- 
pears. The law is operative both ways, is perfect 
freedom ; with the law is life, against the law 
is death. The law contains matters of controversy, 
Being a body of matter, and spirit — one visible, the 
other invisible, only stands in power. Matter when 
visible is an exercise of mind, and in labor there is 
an expenditure of strength ; so in the operation of 
things, there is found deceit. The law has no re- 
spect for persons, it is obvious ; the standard of man 
is invisible ; mind cannot be viewed by the outward 
organs. The power of the body, is in the head 
or soul of man; the visible form is not the invisible 
head, the spirit, or invisible substance being in the 
soul ; and each part is perfected in the anatomy of the 
body. Power visible, or the world, are separate 
spheres or one law — the equator. Life is hid in a 
body of death, or the invisible is concealed by the vi- 
sible. The centre or seat is the life, or power of the 
body; so that to obtain life, the body is broken; or the 
heart, the centre of the body is divided. Power di- 
vided among bodies are portions, or a certain amount 
of substance. Power divided, are separate bodies, 
visible and invisible; bodies separated are things; 
the matter of a body is nothing, or negative sub- 
stance, and the spirit is something, positive. The 
law passes through four, gates or forms of power ; 
the elements are four, and each is a separate power ; 
the elements contain a principle of life or death, a 



56 THE CONSTITUTION. 

positive and negative substance, one visible, the oth- 
er not seen, making five visible and five invisible, or 
a body of ten. The tables of the law regulate the 
outward and inward, visible and invisible ; five are 
positive and five are negative, yea and nay, what- 
ever more than these is of evil, good is effected by 
^vil ; however unworthy it appears it overcometh. 
The victory is after the battle, and the warfare does 
not cease until death is captive. Powers are inde- 
pendent of each other, and are eternal ; in power 
there is nothing visible — no matter appears — -it 
stands forever, a body perfected, is in power ; matter 
and spirit in a certain proportion is life — experience 
is a body of power, and the knowledge of good, and 
the knowledge of evil are parts, and being equal are 
the poise, or standing of the body. Bodies that stand, 
or works that live are immortal. The mortality of 
bodies is the matter ; soul and body are equal — an 
exempler is perfect. The invisible part of the visi- 
ble world is the head ; the revelation, or the invisi- 
ble seen in the visible world, is a divine matter ; the 
mind's eye discovers a new world. Power invisi- 
ble, is the revelation of the world, or visible head. 
The world is perfect, and the perfection of parts is 
power. The back and the face, are parts of the fig- 
ure, or form; the square of a circle is power, and 
equals, is the form of a square. 

Life, always graced or circular." The line of beauty 
is grace; matter is of form, and always stiff and 



THB CONSTITUTION. 57 

straight ; life is all pleasure, matter all pain. Plea- 
sure and pain are the ingredients of the cup, and the 
maintenance of the law is good conduct. Genus or 
genisis is a specified body, or things of like kind, the 
powers are such, and only generate their like; the 
sub-division, or better part of man is woman. The 
eternity of ihe world is in equity; man is an epi- 
tome, or a volume of the world ; his history is in the 
revelation ; his rise is by degrees, and at the end of 
the chapter is lodged, after labor, refreshment or 
rest. The book is a sealed book, and no man can 
read and live. The elements of the world are the 
composition of the body, and the life of the body is 
the spirit — the substance of them, are the consistency. 
The man is of the world, and the woman is of the 
man ; her head is power because of the angel ; the 
weaker vessel is after, before has pre-eminence, or 
standing, before and after, is a division of time, and 
numbers are the bodies reckoning ; in all numbers, 
their forms are different ; the visible ten, is the body 
or uniformity. The principle distinctions are the vi- 
sible and invisible parts. The woman is not seen, 
she lives in him; the twain makes one body. The 
equilibrium of power is destroyed, when either part 
inclines or sides with another, and the effect is a 
joint issue; any motion or change is a variation of 
substance, and all substances are either visible or in- 
visible. The forms of power are visible, and appear 
in the law; the law or heart of bodies is central, and 



58 THE CONSTITUTION. 

the extremities are life and death ; the taste of one is 
good, the other evil. The knowledge of good and 
evil is the body of the law. 

Time is born of power and is the substance of 
life ; a visible effect of an invisible substance. All 
visible things are a matter of death. The effects of 
time is money, or substance, and money is a death to 
the spirit. Power invisible is changed, or made a vi- 
sible power ; the visible power is death. Bodies how- 
ever are beautiful because of perfection of pans; 
matter is the disease of the body ; too much 
matter makes the body heavy; or more spirit 
are light bodies. As to time, the one is fast, the oth- 
er is slow ; the thing is certain, bodies are two; op- 
posite each other, and the unity is the world. Hea- 
ven and earth are each a body, the one celestial, the 
other terrestial, or a visible world. Visible things 
die or have an end, and it is the appearance of mat- 
ter against the life. The body of matter is death ; the 
woman may be called the life or Heaven ; be- 
ing the better part. The man a curse, or adam — 
the abreviate is a dam or a short race. From 
these two, of spirit and matter, in unity all 
bodies are composed. Two dissimilar substances 
of male and female go to the composition of the 
body. The minds measure compares with the invi- 
sible standard, and the issue is in kind; a positive 
and negative is found in the body, the cause of all 
dispute, a war of words ; a physical hate. Time 



THE CONSTITUTION. 59 

born of life is invisible, but the change is perceived ; 
a change is from one position to another; an altered 
body is the effect of time* Times time is death. 
Power and form is almighty ; two distinct substan- 
ces, equal in every respect ; form is of the body and 
is the property, being the substance of power. Pow- 
er is a positive nature — there is no resisting of its in- 
fluence; form negatives itself being visible, dies in 
order to attain life; the son of power, or first born is 
returned into the father substance ; names are sacri- 
ficed to the will of another, for the sake of substance ; 
all substances is for the life's sake. Power is invisi- 
ble ; all things visible must die ; there is no possibili- 
ty, or nothing positive in form ; its continuance is on- 
ly as its substance, the invisible parts ; forms not 
seen are spirit ; form invisible is the word of power ; 
this is the principle and vitality of all bodies, visi- 
ble and invisible ; words are specified forms, and 
convey a signified substance ; the body of the word 
is wisdom, and the substance being life, is of a di- 
vine nature : a negative body or form is human — un- 
certain, subject to changes, having dominion in time, 
and in the death of time ; there is of it no more re- 
membrance. Works of time are the knowledge of 
the high, and the substance is a part of power — this 
lives, and is the increase of a small beginning. The 
Principal. Power is desired by all men, and exists 
in various forms ; the two principles are visible and 
invisible. Money is a visible power, and bares the 



60 THE CONSTITUTION. 

image, the head is the invisible ; money is a form of 
power, or a currency of life ; like the blood it circu- 
lates through the body, it also has an opposite ; the 
reverse is without ; the rich are in possession the 
poor are destitute. 

Form of either principle, the visible and invisible, 
is of the body of wisdom ; the wisdom of the world 
is visible ; works that are seen are self-evident, and 
the various form within, moral and physical, are the 
articles of the table. In life there is more than one 
course ; quality is the distinction ; these things are 
visible. Water is from the spring; qualified water 
is wine ; wine and water, argues infirmity ; quanti- 
ty is with water — quality is with wine; infirmity 
is caused by a foreign ingredient. Water is pure, 
and wine is pure, but a mixture is adulteration, and 
it is a body defiled. Wisdom that is seen is glorious ; 
the world and its form is seen ; sight comes by reve- 
lation, or forms invisible are seen by faith. A knowl- 
edge of the world is a part of wisdom, or the law of 
life; the law is central, and the motion of the body 
is the hypothenues ; the visible principle of wisdom 
is the world, and its substance is life; the form of the 
spirit is the word of wisdom ; the wisdom above is 
heavenly, it begins in life and is without end — the 
wisdom beneath is earthly, and is not. The two 
bodies of one substance, born and brought forth by 
power, are as opposite to each other as heaven and 
earth ; the one a positive, or life — the other a nega- 
tive or death. 



THE CONSTITUTION. 61 

Wisdom is operative in every direction, as all life 
is a revolution, like a wheel within a wheel, whose 
motions are contrary, yet but one purpose effected, 
which is power in display. These two are seen as 
distinctly as two bodies can be; one whose substance 
is matter, the other spirit. The matter of a body is 
always visible ; an individual shows it in his face — it 
may be mental or physical ; matter is in the appear- 
ance of bodies, and is the occasion of form. The vi- 
sible matter of the spirit are the forms of power, mat- 
ter of form or matter of spirit, which is conscious- 
ness, must die ; there is no life eternal, but in the in- 
visible ; out of all visible things the centre only is 
power— the heart of the body, wherein is life. The 
two substances, only formed in the world; are a body 
of spirit, and a matter of body ; these two separate 
substances are the parts of all bodies. Heaven and 
Earth — bodies celestial and terrestial — together or 
united, is the whole world; the visible part is physi- 
cal, the invisible is ethical. 

The heart of the world, or blood, which is the life 
and the only thing sought for through this body of 
matter understood to be happiness or life, is a visi- 
ble or physical substance, dies ; and as the visible 
body disappears, the ethical or spirited matter forms 
itself after the power of the visible. The world or 
any visible thing containing the life, is called the 
most precious thing, lies hid, matter obscures the 
sight, and nothing human can reach the invisible, 
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02 THE CONSTITUTION. 

nothing living, a dead body only is the sacrifice. 
Wisdom's body, like any other, has parts. The 
word and the substance of the same, which is faith. 
The word is invisible and begins in life. Light or 
knowledge is the fourth of wisdom or portion of 
power ; knowledge is the dry land,'or portion of the 
world. Earth to earth, or kind to kind, is the effect 
of a secret principle or power ; knowledge is the 
quantity of matter in the known world, and the 
light of knowledge is experience. Wisdom beneath 
as opposite to wisdom above; both are bodies of 
power ; their unity is the strongest thing or pillar 
of truth. Experience is a body that stands, and is 
bought with a price ; the amount paid is equal to 
the estimate. The possession of light or reason is 
the standing of the body ; bodies are made to stand 
or fall ; any gratified inclination destroys the poise. 
Power may be likened to a body consisting within 
itself; prosperity the life, adversity the death; the 
mixture of these two producing time ; any depar- 
ture of life is towards death ; one half lost is the 
sum of time; time is the amount or cost paid, for 
time is equal to money, and the amount is in pro- 
portion to the labor ; prosperity is the effect of time, 
but to equalize all things is an exercise of power ; 
the whole of spent life is death — the end of time ; 
adversity is the defect of time or end of life ; defects 
are the destruction of the body, as effects are the 
building up ; one law universal — whatever is gained 



THE CONSTITUTION. 63 

in time is lost in power ; a created soul is void ; 
darkness covers the deep. Let there be light and 
there was light ; a broken body is the price of pur- 
chase ; life is found in death ; a body's destruction 
is the light -of the sguI, or knowledge of good and 
evil-; human nature here finishes and the divine be- 
gins ; for light is an invisible substance, and nothing 
hut unseen things, or what is not possible, for a body 
to behold; eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
hath it entered the heart of man to conceive ; are 
the substances of power. The day thou eatest 
thereof, is a voice from within, thou shalt surely 
die. From the beginning of time unto the termina- 
tion, death reigneth, the power of darkness. The 
two forms of power are light and darkness or day 
and night ; a divided day is a measure of time, and 
night is the extinction, night is the death of the day 
as death is the death of the light ; power, or a body 
perfected, is all light, the darkness is no darkness at 
all ; the darkness and light are both alike ; time 
and death are of one substance, the darkness of the 
body : life and labor is the light of the body. These 
four portions are four visible forms of power, time 
and death, and life and labor ; or time and death is 
the power of darkness, life and labor is the power 
of light, a visible motion and a latent power : these 
two are in constant exercise. Visible things are the 
life of the body, but the death of the soul, as invisi- 
ble things are the power but death of the body* 



64 THE CONSTITUTION. 

Time is the substance of life or power, and money 
is the visible representation : time is equal to money, 
and money is power : death is visible, when the life 
or power is absent. These representatives or por- 
traits are drawn from the life, when day declines, 
night takes rule. Life is visible in the blood, phy- 
sically so ; mentally is visible when a body is in 
motion, mentally a distinction of quality. Labor, 
the fourth principle or portion of power, is visible in 
act. The four properties, or power, are of one 
substance, or life invisible. Two and two, or pairs, 
male and female, or ark of the covenant, or any 
dissimilar substance, whose unity makes one, is a 
body of power. All bodies are composed of a cer- 
tain quantity of matter, with an equal proportion 
of spirit. There is no difference in bodies, large or 
small, only one is more glorious, as the sphere en- 
larges. Form is the visible effect of matter, power 
is invisible. The bodv, or power of darkness, is 
made of time and death, time as it were, the life 
of the body. Death is the matter: the body of 
light, or power, is of life and labor, a revelation or 
knowledge of the world. The knowledge of good 
and evil is darkness and light, brought to light, or 
the substance of bodies. This world contains a prin- 
ciple, their unity is truth. The dark substance is a 
negative character ; the substance of light is posi- 
tive ; day and night is the light and darkness of the 
world, or visible power : day and night are a re- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 65 

veaied body, being the invisible substance of a visi- 
ble world. In all bodies there is a latent principle 
which is invisible, brought into being, a created, of 
an uncreated substance ; created bodies, as all 
works, evidence themselves. The centre of power 
is the principle of motion, a poise or equilibrium is 
a rest. The external is the matter, visible in form ; 
the internal is the spirit, invisible, the life. The 
tree of knowledge has given these two substances, 
or fruits, each a name ; accordingly one is good, the 
otber evil. 

The spirit is good ; matter is the evil of the 
world : knowledge is downwards, or prostration of 
the life : the return is in wisdom, or redemption. 
Life is expended for light ; the body is dead in ab- 
sence of life, life taking root downwards, and springs 
upwards. The body dies, the spirit lives. 

Wisdom that is visible is the image of the lower 
world, and is the glory of the ancient. This is the 
body visible, whose substance is invisible, and all 
unseen things are ever; a tree of life : visible things 
are glorious, invisible are more glorious : life plant- 
ed, produces life, if the ground is visible, then is the 
character physical, or an outward paradise: life, the 
visible fruit of the body, planted in the likeness of 
life, or the tree invisible, produces immortality. 
This is the garden, intellectual or hidden wisdom 
■above all visible things. The body of the world, 
canopied by heaven, the eden of creation, or work 
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68 THE CONSTITUTION. 

of wisdom, must die, before the invisible. A body 
dies before immortalized. The beauty of perfec- 
tion shone in the sire : to know the invisible, is 
now, as was then, the desire of all ; and the only 
way lies through death, or a broken body. A visi- 
ble body for a visible immortality, or as long as the 
sun and moon endureth, is the reign of a visible 
power. 

Visible things are as matter, or nought, before the 
invisible. The world is not only drowned in tears, 
but is reserved to the last day, to be consumed by 
fire. Repentance is the flood, or washing away the 
filth of the earth, and the destruction of the world 
is in the spirit. Fire tries spirits of the just, and 
the proof is in the enduring. The elements them- 
selves shall dissolve, and the chief must be tried in 
the fire unquenchable ; a living sacrifice is the death 
required ; possessions of the world, or power, is the 
amount or sum of parts, that is crossed by a living 
principle, invisible, the seed of life. Life dies, or 
the living body is crucified : a setting sun, darkens 
the world, as the world dies so is resurrected. 
Power with power is the word of truth : from the 
materials of the old, a new world is created, or the 
human exercising a divine prerogative. The seed 
sown is the word of life, or spirit invisible, being 
the substance of the visible ; one is planted in the 
heart, a visible ground, the other, of a divine na- 
ture, is planted in the garden of the soul, an invisi- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 67 

ble soil. The visible seed is in the living tree, a 
visible power lives forever, and, like the magnet, 
rests in the invisible. This is a mystical body, of 
parts equal, and whose performance is like the 
parts; it centres heaven and earth, a visible crea- 
tion. Matter and spirit are parts of all bodies, and 
an equal proportion is the lot of every living thing. 
The world's centre is the die, a time of the body, a 
matter of inermess, an infinite divisibility : one part 
of all the world is negative, which gives a visible, 
or produces the appearance of bodies. 

The secret cause of gravitation is kindred or like, 
matter to matter ever will descend — spirit always is 
upward. The positive is equal to the negative, and 
the point where the visible ends is the beginning 
of the invisible, matter divisible ad infinitum ; hea- 
ven and earth are distinctly seen apart. The verge 
of the world is a visible outline separating the dense 
from the rare ; visible things terminate only in the 
invisible — they traverse the world round to attain 
their point; this is the centre or body of power; 
the quality of this power is love, whose attraction is 
as strong as death. Matter gravitates to the extinc- 
tion of life; the quantity is fear; a visible power is 
proportioned of these. The parts of visible power, 
are the back and face — the countenance beams with 
light; the back, like a cloud, brings darkness with 
it — joy and sorrow in equal weight, is a poise 
of perfection. Rain and sunshine is seen alternately 



68 THE CONSTITUTION. 

in the world, but the maturity of anything is the spi- 
rit ; this is the point of wisdom to know — all visible 
things tend toward life, the only rest found under 
heaven. Visible power is limited by time, a destroy- 
er of the body. 

The world dies daily, from the beginning until time 
shall be no longer, does it advance to an end. Visi- 
ble power rests in visible things, or the eternity 
of the world, and the possession of the invisible is a 
sacrifice of these. The process is like a ball of thread, 
or the world ; to pass through the eye of a needle ; 
the body is exchanged for the soul. The seed is the 
substance of the two, consisting of parts visible and 
invisible, or an outward and an inward form, the one 
a counterpart or image of the other: the invisible is 
the soul of the world, and the visible is the body or 
form of things ; every thing seen is caused by mat- 
ter, whether outward or inward. The substance of 
the tree is the life, the elementary of the soul or phy- 
sical, it becomes in process of time, incorporated in 
the invisible, it is true: only bodies receive power, 
the spirit is life. 

In all living things, the soul is first perceived in 
the whale ; a Laviathan, subordinate creatures, be- 
fore is animated, but the substance is either water or 
blood ; even in these there is a pre-eminence : parts 
are required to make a perfect body, visible or in- 
visible. The elementary substances to the soul are 
always visible ; the union of blood and water : the 



THE CONSTITUTION. 69 

visible part is elementary or physical — fire is the 
power or life of the body : the seed is in the body, 
and is the substance — the invisible part is the ele- 
mentary animation. The invisible fire is the pow- 
er or life of the soul : soul and body are parts of the 
world. The elements are four, two visible and two 
invisible, or substances of the seed, one a positive the 
other a negative character, their union forms a body ; 
the seed is sown in the weakness, or humanity, it is 
raised in power, or divine : the elements or seed 
produces substance, the substance when sown makes 
a body ; the body planted, produces life ; the pro- 
gression or process is of power, or the substance of 
which life is composed. 

There is a visible life, and there is an invisible 
life ; the visible is seen, it is either water or blood ; 
animated nature or bodies without a soul — the vege- 
table kingdom have sap or water as a substance of 
life ; the invigorating principle or power is fire, a vi- 
sible body, the source of vegetation. — The sum 
This wisdom is born of the earth, and has water, as 
a life or soul, these parts form one body. 

The next in order is animated nature, born of 
blood. The first seed or body is planted in the wa- 
ter — it is of the earth or first element : a bulbous 
root grows in water, and the leaf in the variety of cp- 
lour. Blood is the leaf of life, of bodies, is the off- 
spring of the earth, it is sown in the water; fishes 
are bodies, where first the blood appears as the life ; 



70 THE CONSTITUTION. 

but a drop in beginning bave some, and a gradual in- 
crease unto fulness. Water is tbe life of the earth 
or vegetable kingdom, and blood is the life of the 
animal kingdom, both visible : to obtain life, a body 
must die, there is' a transformation of substance, al- 
ways the better, never the less : water has a spring 
or source of beginning ; the stones of the earth 
wherein is the latent fire, or the rock, the vitality of 
the earth— all bodies, refined, one of another, a crude 
into fine, or chaos into form. The element of a rock 
is the earth, planted in the stones, or body of earth, 
whose consistency is its compact, and as the earth 
contains a per centage of fire, the latent visible prin- 
ciple is found, this is seen distinctly in the flint wben 
struck—the spark or the insipient of visible power. 
Hard and soft are terms given to the earth, one a pro- 
duct of the other. Sofi is made hard by water, in 
proportion to affinity: lime-stones with sand, be- 
come in process hard, this characters a rock whose na- 
ture is solidity. From the element of earth, or 
body or rock. Water, the next element springs up ; 
the rock or heart is broken, and out comes water, or 
tears. 

The death of the body is the life of the soul, or in- 
visible part, also the soul's death is the body's life, 
or part visible — a merchandize of either. The rock 
planted is raised a body of water, or ocean ; the 
springs begin in the rock, and the streams make for 
a place of rest— they unite in one head. Earth and 



THK CONSTITUTION. 71 

Water are the two visible elements, the one is life to 
the other : the earth and water in union is the visi- 
ble body. The visible body, as the seed planted in 
heaven or the invisible, produces blood — blood is the 
life : the heart is the centre where these four ele- 
ments, meet or unite in one life. The body human 
is composed of the four elements, and decomposition 
goes to the composition of bodies — there is no life 
obtained without destroying the body: Each element 
supports itself— a perfect independence to all bodies ; 
blood is the visible life, to obtain the invisible. The 
life invisible must die — death takes place without 
corruption, when the elements of the body are spi- 
ritualized. 

The elements — all of them — the four, are compo- 
sed of two distinct substances, the one is a source of 
life, the other of death ; they are called gases, or are 
the two parts or substances of one thing — the spirit. 
Blood, or the natural body is sacrificed to the spirit ; 
visible things die to the invisible or are spiritualized, 
as the death of the body, is the life of the soul. The 
unity of the earth and water, produces blood a dis- 
tinctive body — a quality of life ; water is the drink 
of the earth, and makes blood ; the two invisible el- 
ements of air and fire supporters of the spirit, also an 
invisible substance ; the body of the fire is warmed 
by the air it breathes ; the fire is kept up by the wa- 
ter and earth, the visible part is nourished. The 
four produces a fifth, or one name for the four in 



72 THE CONSTITUTION. 

union : flesh and blood are parts of the body ; blood is 
composed of water and earth ; flesh is the matter of 
the spirit, or the two invisible elements of fire and 
air in exercise. The visible body is composed of 
matter and spirit ; one is seen, the other is not ; the 
visible elements support the visible part, and the vi- 
sible of fire and air maintains their like ; these 
four are in body, and the spirit makes the fifth. 

The whale of all the fishes in the sea, only has 
lungs, and when a body possesses these, the spirit is 
the life ; in the growth parts are increased; blood is 
the visible life, but the invisible life begins in the 
spirit; fire elementary is the visible or physical 
power; as an element it is invisible and only per- 
ceived by the spirit; as it is a chief, none but a 
higher order can speak of it. The centre of power 
is the soul of the fish — it is a spark of fire to distin- 
guish the element from the spirit — it is called living 
fire or spirit. Fire in its native state is not seen — it 
is an invisible element: in combination or combus- 
tion it is visible. In the make of a body, parts are 
required, or intelligence ; these consist of knowledge 
as one head — itself has parts, the back and face ; 
the properties of knowledge of good and evil, make 
a body. Light is the substance — this is the first 
degree of power: this substance again is divided or 
returned as was found. The positive and negative 
are characters of the one substance or element : there 
are four portions of power — three degrees or heads: 



THE CONSTITUTION. 73 

the first is elementary and brought to a head by cul- 
tivation ; it makes no difference whether one or 
more of the elements are nurtured, their end is the 
same, general and particular. The proficient is en- 
titled to substance or support; this is the first step 
in the parrh of wisdom. Furnished with the means, 
or a positive or a negative character is of age, or a 
certain time for a certain substance : the fourth 
position like the fourth element, is negative, or is 
not. The elementary portion goes to the formation 
of body, the materials of which it is made — it re- 
quires two substances in union, to one body, or equal 
portions of matter and spirit. Substance is then 
that title, or head of power. Money is power. 
Three heads or degrees — a triangle, or triple crown 
— are symbols of power. Substance expended, la- 
bour in exercise, or the body of; substance planted, 
as a seed of generation, produces good and evil — the 
body's or the seed's property — it being composed of 
the two substances, positive and negative, good and 
evil, are the characters of the world. The seed that 
is planted in a visible ground, or the heart, in matu- 
rity is brought to light : this is like the soul of the 
body, an invisible substance. The heart and the 
head are parts of the body. Light is the head of 
knowledge — an invisible substance. The seed plant- 
ed in the earth is visible ; after passing through two 
heads, or degrees, becomes invisible : the third is 
a perfection, a trinity of power, or one gate ; each 
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74 THE CONSTITUTION. 

severally is made perfect — four visible beginnings, 
ending in unseen things, or the intellectual powers. 
Two heads of one substance make a body of divinity, 
the letter and the spirit, or law of nature. It is to 
be understood, and universally acknowledged, that 
the two substances of matter and spirit, are the only 
known in the world. Matter is dead, or inert ; 
spirit is life. If the visible seed, as it does, contains 
an equal portion, the same as bodies, in the revolution 
or changes of time, it passes to the spirit; this is 
only active and dispossessing of matter ; the nature 
of the power is invisible. Materials or essentials, 
are used in building ; the difference is, one is made 
by a visible hand, the other is not seen. The light 
of knowledge, as an invisible beginning, arises from 
the spirit of the two substances of good and evil ; one 
substance rises high, the other sinks low, so as to 
obtain a steady course ; neither is taken. Life is 
onward, and the spirit is life; the nature of this sub- 
stance is very different from the first; the beginning 
was in visible things, or the world ; it was down- 
wards : as soon as the root was taken, or the square 
of the matter, it springs upward ; the nature of the 
spirit is active, either descending or ascending, with 
the law, or against the law, it makes or loses 
strength. The characters of the world are positive 
and negative ; one attracts, the other repels : when 
either of them are bodied, they are virtuous or vicious. 
The spirit attracted by one, and repelled by the other, 



TKR CONSTITUTION. 75 

a new course is found, a perfect direction given** 
a law to regulate and move by ; this is the beginning 
of wisdom. The body makes an election ; here be- 
ginneth the dawn of life, or the crown of the body* 
the king of the subject, a conversion of the natural 
body, or seed, into a divine, or sacred body. If we 
look at the nature of the seed, it may be readily 
known what course it will take, if a visible seed ; 
then will it desire the earth, a negative element, 
and a gratification produces a death. Visible bodies 
must die, before they can reach the invisible, or 
receive the spirit* A broken heart is the sacrifice 
for a visible redemption, or a sorrow for trespass, 
before the sunshine of joy. Life is the crown, visible 
or invisible. Made perfect before beginning, yet 
without knowledge or wisdom, a body as well as the 
soul has worlds unknown to luxuriate in. These 
parts of being are body and soul opposed to one 
another, even unto death; in the perfection of power 
are united in one. There is a war to the destruction 
of all visible things, every thing dense or heavy, by 
reason of matter ; an agent of one kind or other is 
employed to extinguish, or put out of existence, any 
thing foreign to the spirit. Fire is the chief element, 
and marshals the rest. The earth is dissolved by the 
water : the waters are troubled by the winds ; they 
toss themselves, and are agitated; they are made 
black and muddy, that were before clear and trans* 
parent. Neptune, the god of the sea, and all the 



76 THE CONSTITUTION. 

deities elemental, are moved. The air, expanding 
her lungs, blows a gale, the power howling, and 
rending with noise. Jupiter's hot bolts carry destruc- 
tion, and in the blaze ; nothing is seen, nothing visible, 
nought remains but the invisible : here is the dwell- 
ing, the house not made with hands, eternal : to live 
here, the mortal must die, must be burnt up. The 
spirit is proof against fire — it is life — it can never die : 
the spirit may be lost, but its nature is everlasting ; 
the elements when returned, what remains is spirit. 
This substance contains the positive and negative 
character ; with the spirit is life, life evermore ; 
against the law, death of body and soul. 

If we give each element a portion of the world, 
then is it divided, and every one has a peculiar cha- 
racter. Fire, as the chief, is southern, because it is 
most rare. The element of air is next. The west- 
ern treasures up the winds and breezes. Water is 
found in the east ; and the earth, frigid and cold, 
is the north. The extremities of the world, are hot 
and cold ; the more heat, and as the portions recede, 
so is it negatived. The north, and the east, are op- 
posed to heat; originating in the elements of earth 
and water, are both negative. The south and west 
are born of fire ; they are positive : these two are 
active: fire being the chief element, and the south 
his residence, then must the place be much warmer 
with such an occupant. The element of air, living 
in the west, is free. The two opposite portions, 



THE CONSTITUTION. 77 

or the unity of fire and air, is positive ; the unity 
of water and earth, a negative — parts of the world. 
The portion of the element of fire, with the portion 
of the element of air, make a pole, or head : air is 
the body; fire, the life or power, together are posi- 
tive ; both exist in an invisible state. Water is the 
life of the earth : both visible, and are negative, is 
anotheir pole. The poles of the world are opposite 
each other, outwardly and inwardly; outward as 
regards place, inward as the power. The north is 
a marked point, or centre of its own ; earth and wa- 
ter, both negative, sink or go down unto the let of 
the positive. Solidity is the extent or heart of the 
body. The south repels the north, and centres ir 
itself; they are equal. Fire and air, positive, rise 
to the circumference. Expansion is the power or 
soul. The north and the south, are opposite each 
other; so are the east and west; these four portions 
poise each other — part positive, part negative ; these 
are again united, as opposite as they are, and con- 
stitute the world. These four portions, or points, 
are an intelligence; united in one, as the world is 
constituted, is the form of the spirit. 

To be weather-wise, is to know the elements, and 
the direction they take. All things or elements, 
pattern after the original. Whatever their nature is, 
the Author of the elements gives birth to. Substan- 
ces or things, are like himself, they being the image 
of his person. The elements separately, or put in 

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78 THE CONSTITUTION. 

forms, visible and invisible, may be returned again. 
All forms that are, are caused by the negative part; 
likewise the invisible forms are of the positive. 
These parts of positive and negative are of one sub- 
stance — the spirit ; this is invisible : all power is in 
the invisible — the author or image of things seen. 
The east is indicative of rain or water. The west, 
a blow, or breezes. The south is hot, and the north 
cold. These are the points of the compass, and cha- 
racterized by their peculiar element. To exercise 
one's skill, or show his power, is to use the elements 
as they are, and produce whatever combination or 
form he will. The active part is of the body, and 
the spirit can give substance. To know what wea- 
ther would a point between the south and east pro- 
duce, or south-east, we must look at the nature of 
the element — and the character indicated, will par- 
take of both. A warm rain is pointed out. The 
north-east point, would be a cold rain. North-west, 
a cold wind or storm. Summer and winter, are equal, 
and it is only the absence of fire or heat, that produ- 
ces cold. Snow is the shroud of the earth. South- 
west, a warm wind, or breezes. The north for 
cold, the south hot. The east, wet — and the west, 
dry, or fair weather. Fire and air, are active, 
water and earth, are passive ; these together form 
an atmosphere. The temper or disposition of these 
are marked or certain. Fire is the activity — and 
the elements are only so as they contain fire. Air 



THE CONSTITUTION. 79 

is invisible, and only known by its effects. The 
cause of its being invisible, is that it contains more 
fire; this is the power, or physical operator ; all mo- 
tion comes from this source, therefore active. Air 
and water are the mediums of the world — one active, 
the other passive. The earth and water are passive ; 
the earth checks the water, and opposes motion; 
its power is rest, the centre being the fixed point. 
All rest, or motion hindered, is caused by the water 
and the earth, a negative expression for a positive 
thing. The elements then, as they are active or 
passive, are in motion or still. They are severally 
named : each element has a character, when equal, 
or the active negatived by the passive, and the pas- 
sive made active : there is then a poise, or balance: 
but when fire is given out, the lightnings fly, the air 
thunders in the report, the waters deluge the earth, 
and that which is passive, is moved at the tempest. 
The earth, as a bodied power, its centre or heart 
is fire — an element invisible, whose property is mo- 
tion, inearthed or cased, by one whose interests are 
diametrically opposed, in visible or invisible bodies. 
The will is of the power invisible, formed or created 
of fire, is always active, and would know no fatigue, 
if it was not for the body. The heart or centre of 
visible things, contains the life : this virtue, or 
treasure — call it by what name you will— lies hid, 
buried as it were, so that to obtain, one must dig — 
all the elements conspiring, like a flaming sword, 



SO THE CONSTITUTION. 

to defend.; and guard approach. Labor, war, blood, 
and death— obstacles of ordinary character — are ex- 
ercised until the spirit is formed. This centre, when 
applied to a portion of the visible earth, or to the 
world, has respective titles; any thing visible, whe- 
ther nature or art, has a reference, mediately or 
immediately, to this point. The soul is the invisi- 
ble. The heart is the visible centre of the body. 
The invisible attracts, or draws near; the visible 
repels, or gravitates. Bodies are composed of matter 
and spirit, ascending and descending. Matter goes 
downwards towards matter; spirit upwards towards 
spirit. Bodies approach each oiher, by the power 
of attraction ; in life is this seen. Every matter visi- 
ble, produces a gravitation. The earth — a portion 
of the world — has a centre, and it will be found, as 
you approach or draw near, things or elements 
become more rare, or not seen, as power only is in 
the invisible : first they are gross, then refined : the 
more matter visible in bodies, the more distant from 
power. Fire is the centre of visible bodies. The 
earth has emissions rare or dense, according to the 
will or heart; their names given, are visible repre- 
sentations of spirit and matter, parts of bodies. The 
will is not seen by occular demonstration : materials, 
and not essentials, are objects of sight. The heart 
as matter, is visible to the naked eye ; these sepa- 
rately show the visible power of the body, still 
physical : it contains blood; the blood is the life, or 



THE CONSTITUTION. 81 

centre. The will of the earth is invisible, and all 
such are known by effects : it is the essence, or nature 
of the heart, that is rarified into spirit: the process, 
or art, is in imitation of nature ; the science is illus- 
trative, being the spirit of the thing. 

The enumeration of elementary bodies are — the 
sun, as fire ; the air, a body of wind ; the ocean, as 
water ; and the earth, a body of dry land. The 
matter of each of these, as all bodies are in part, 
are of fire: the matter is passion ; the matter of air 
is a vacuum ; the matter of water, dispute ; the 
matter of earth, a discbarge; in the last-named 
body, a visible display is seen. The will, or fire, 
being the centre, and the extremities, or circumfer- 
ence, the earth, together with the water, and air 
in the outward form of the visible body, are irregular 
in outline, yet mathematically just. The standard 
being invisible, all things visible must yield there- 
unto. The mountains are brought low, the valleys 
are exalted ; the visible bodies, of either element, 
are seen separately and distinct. The fire, as a body, 
pervades. Electricity is a scientific body. The air 
tells its own story, by the noise it makes. They are 
invisible, but known. The ocean and dry land are 
seen ; from the centre to the circumference, or from 
the outward unto the interior, are directions contrary 
to each other. The four bodies, or powers, make up 
the terrestrial. By a law universal in operation, 
bodies or elements, letted or free, each and sepa- 



g2 THE CONSTITUTION. 

rately will take their proper place, or a secret order. 
This hidden mystery can be no other than the life, 
the only active thing. Bodies moving towards the 
centre, or drawing near, are as happy as they can 
be; but from power, or the heart, affection is lost, 
and blood flows ; one is the making, the other the 
destruction of all. Life and death are the extremi- 
ties of the law. The earth as a visible body, whose 
centre is fire, or life, is discovered in a visible, or 
material condition — although fire, as an element, 
is invisible ; but when the order of nature is invert- 
ed, disorder and disease take place; fire becomes 
the agent of destruction, or a building up, according 
to the direction given: with the law, nature's refuge 
for all her acts, be they called phenomena, or an 
impossibility, yet explains her ways, if subject to 
her teaching, in obedience, health; against the law, 
or disobedient, sickness. 

The earth, as an element, contains less fire than 
any of the four; besides this, the consistency of the 
same is water. The air that is in her composition, 
produces pores, or prevents a nearer compact : her 
principal property is solidity: this ratio or mathe- 
matical quantity is in the elements visible ; the same 
proportion in the elements invisible. Quality is the 
product of quantity. This explication is somewhat 
hard to be understood. Nature when inverted, to 
follow is somewhat dangerous : the difficulty is only 
in the will: this is imperial. To those acquainted 



THE CONSTITUTION. 83 

with her ways, know also her rewards ; she ladens 
them with her treasures— but alas, fatal curiosity ! 
she opens the gate of death; fearful as the entrance 
may be, to them that overcome, she crowns with 
immortality. 

Fire becomes visible in the discharge of the earth, 
bodied as man, or the mother of the living. JEtna, 
from her entrails, vomits blackness, or elements of 
death: lesser eruptions are over her body. The 
heart, the vital principle, because of an inverted 
order, instead of a currency through the veins, like 
the angry sea, casts up mire and dirt. The elements 
may be active or passive, by a consistency within 
themselves: from these the will originates; but 
neither power of fire, of air, of water, or earth, can 
harm, until rule or reins of government are lost, 
then a change does take place. Lightnings and 
thunder, or felt darkness, or hell cries, Havoc ! lets 
loose the dogs of war. Science has bodied all the 
elements. Each contains matter of dissolution! 
the mortality of bodies is the matter; the amount 
or sum of each is death, the negative parts of the 
law. A dead body is matter, or corruption: matter 
is measured by quantity. The standard, or the uni- 
versal agreement, and assent of things, is the invisi- 
ble rule. Parts, or the body, is the scale of justice. 
A foot, or a bushel, has relative contents. The orb 
of measurement is the height and depth, and length, 
and breadth: "M matter, or the quantity is known. 



84 THE CONSTITUTION. 

In the universe, there is a certain quantity ; this 
is the body. Counted in time, or measured in mat- 
ter, the limit is death, as parts are equal to the 
whole. The life consists of two bodies: a terres- 
trial and celestial, or a perfect body, is a proportion 
of spirit and matter. The spirit bodied meets the 
heavenly, and matter bodied is earthly. As there 
is a certain quantity of matter in the known world, 
whether visible or invisible, there is also a propor- 
tion of spirit, making the visible and invisible world 
equal. Time has a beginning and end ; matter is 
the fulness of the body, and death its termination. 
The three are connected with each other — the lati- 
tude and longitude of a body. The origin of time 
is in life's departure, or a debasement, laying a 
foundation in time, a matter of death. The law is 
perfect — nothing of time, of matter, of death, can 
affect : the law is life : these things are against the 
soul: the law is ever: these things pass away. 
Life is effected by time, numbering years. Years 
are a matter of time ; and time's time is the body 
of death, or power. 

Life is the substance of power; it is endless, it 
has no beginning or end. Power, whether in life 
or death, is of one substance. Time is the substance 
of life ; matter, a time of life ; and death, a matter 
of time. Forms of an adverse power, or an exhibit 
of the changes or transformations of one thing. 
Time is a matter of death. In time's redemption 



t)j»/<: j -; life, being the substance of p latter 

fuo'jj/': of time, 01 half the time is spent in 
matter; and death is the destruction of life, 'i 1j<* 
death of death, or the resurr action of matter, if a 
ration to life* J^ * ;x ' i -> isi matter taken in time; 
and time's fpeed ii only running fiistei toitfown 
sod. A certain quantity of matter contains JjI<;; 
thif remainf to be proved. Quantity is equal to qua* 
liiy : matter measured, if quantity i thif if life. 
'J he four elements bodied, are soman) pov 
in /in. t ur*: oi art :j law univei sL 'ii' ( 
j>;j- • :j:m'-., show irhal each body contains: thedis- 
v is life and death. Matter is the body of 
death, and life bodies the ipirit. the two substances 
soeontrary one to the other, unite in proportion. 
[)<m\\. in the embrace of lifci A purpose 

of amendment is ?i resolution* Death Iss ps 
body; and the direction only of the spirit, is the for- 
; life, or an arrival at power* a body in 
.Lout j>', , - ad. The 

two forms, of life and death, ate irithin pc 
. the upholding of the world, or the de 
tioo* ] be first tbii - r, j , -,% di 

of its own nature ; Mdr- oyf-ry tiling - 

Prom the ri iblepart, or creation, is the substance 
of an invisible thing: the body is power, the hidden 
intelligence of heaven ! this 
jal body, or tl m of the earth 

jwei ib obtained*, or the posfesaton of the risible 
I 



86 THE CONSTITUTION, 

body is formed, it is called wisdom : this is the spirit 
of the visible form, or substance of heaven. In the 
composition of bodies, matter and spirit are found: 
that wbich is first, is matter; this is measured by 
quantity; afterward quantity is taken in the visible- 
form, or the elements of the body are rarified, or 
made lighter; herein is a visible difference: the 
precipitate of matter descends; while the essence, 
or virtue, rises in value. Heaven and earth are a 
display of substances dense or rare: the wisdom of 
the lower body is seen by the higher: these two, 
made to differ, are equal to each other; one is the 
support of the other. The earth would descend 
without let, if heaven did not prevent ; and high 
looks would not be brought down, did not the earth 
humble itself. The compass of the world, or union 
of these two bodies, is according to the form they 
take : the most perfect form, is the nearest to the 
centre. The visible world of parts, contains the 
reason of things, or the light of the body ; this is the 
circle of its glory. Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
before life can in glory enter : " This is my rest for 
ever," is the language of the spirit. All things 
visible must die : this sentence is made equal in the 
exchange. Life is hid : neither the possessions of 
earth, nor the attainment of heaven, can poise or 
satisfy : body and soul must balance, and so ever 
stand. It is not in the quantity of riches, nor the 
wealth of the learned, but a substance out of either; 



THE CONSTITUTION. 87 

one regulates the other. Life, a thing that never 
dies, outlives both earth and heaven. Life is invisi- 
ble ; a body spiritual, is the destruction of all visible 
things ; they die. 

Reason and faith* are bodies equal to each other; 
one is the invisible substance, or light of visible 
bodies ; the other is a substance visible, of bodies 
invisible: although alike in substance, they are 
opposite in direction; one looks at the other; both 
have sight. Reason's eyes are sensual; Faith per- 
ceives ; enemies in their views, but friendly in ter- 
mination: unseen things are brought to sight* 
Reason looks outward, Faith inward : they are of 
substance, and readily exchange commodities : the 
merchandize of one, buys the merchandize of the 
other : the riches of the world, and no other reason 
is found, why Faith is blind to her possessions : she 
desires not, nor does she look on them. Reason also 
is blind in things of Faith. Possessions of Faith, 
are as much relied on, as the wealth of the world ; 
there is no difference. The more reason, the less 
faith; and, vice versa, most faith has less reason: 
they are convertible. Earth likes her own. Heaven 
is the evidence of faith. These bodies are married 
in truth ; perfected in one. This body, the body of 
truth, is composed of two substances, of the two 
bodies visible, earth and heaven ; or the power of 
the world, immortal, invisible. 

The world is constituted in parts of either, be- 



88 THE CONSTITUTION. 

ginning in time or elements of bodies, exhibiting the 
four powers, portions, or properties. Whatever is 
seen, contains no more or less than these ; through- 
out the universe, one against the other is set, oppo- 
site in every respect. As in the visible body of the 
world, so in the invisible; their enmity is their only 
strength. Bodies opposed to each other, are made 
to unite by mediation ; they undergo a change ; the 
virtue of one, is exchanged or sold for the virtue of 
another. Male and female unite, and form a body ; 
their issue is according to kind. The strength of 
the earth, or the masculine, is imparted to the 
weaker vessel, and the heaven of bliss is partaken. 
Heaven and earth are joined in wedlock, or a dense 
body married to a rare ; one mind : the law obser- 
ved, is the exaltation of being; the law despised, 
or bodies acting contrary, is their diminishing. Hea- 
ven is the height of the earth, and is found in look* 
ing up : a descending body gravitates, or sinks to 
hell. Predestination is related to truth, being born 
of life. Matter, the only cause of a body's appear, 
ance in this court. Whatever is visible, must die, 
is the language of truth : the imperative has no 
respect for persons. Matters of controversy are the . 
substance of the law. Bodies are opposed to each 
other ; life and death are at issue ; facts only are 
substantiated, and these are an evil : or a body of 
matter is transgression. Violation is an evil matter: 
no good thing was ever seen under the law, Justi* 



THE CONSTITUTION. 



fication is of life: facts are related to truth, being 
a part of the body ; so are matters of fact. Matter 
is a death; but a fact of the matter is life: a fact 
is one-half of truth, in relationship : no more is 
seen: the balance of justice is upheld by truth, and 
a matter of fact can be weighed in the scale. Mat- 
ter in quantity is parted for life, or representation. 

Power and form, are equal in principles; they 
both contain wisdom : the elements of one and the 
other are alike ; the difference is the direction taken. 
Latitude and longitude, are bodies of form and 
power ; the one regulates the other. Latitude is of 
longitude; the sum of longitude, or the world's 
limit, is the latitude of heaven. "Wisdom is the 
principal thing ; she is known by her works ; visible 
in form : this is the world embracing heaven and 
earth ; her power or soul, is in the invisible, or se- 
cret parts of the earth ; it is found in the revelation. 
Time or longitude is a body of matter ; this is the 
death of bodies, wherever seen or found. The length 
of time is visible in measurement : the latitude of 
a body is in accordance. The invisible matter of 
time is latitude or power. Matter or time seen, is 
a destroyer of life, and works death. Time redeem- 
ed, is the eternity of the world. 

Latitude and longitude, is the substance of time : 

these titles are prefixed to the visible and invisible 

parts of creation. Latitude is the spirit of the body 

of time ; longitude the matter. Time's time is its 

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90 THE CONSTITUTION. 

own; that is time enough; it is measured in itself. 
Time is the matter of death ; the spirit of matter 
is the life : these several forms of power are produced 
in the exchange. The properties of bodies are their 
lives. Time is the substance of life, and the matter 
is of time : the time of the matter is death ; substan- 
ces, because all are of power: time is a destroyer; 
matter likewise ; and death spares none. The body 
as one, is the only thing opposed to life : the conver- 
sion of death into life, is the removing of foreign sub- 
stances ; so that life may be all in all. The ceasing 
of mortality, is the beginning of life immortal : the 
several forms possessing life, are regulated by one 
law : the material principle of action, or secret thing 
that animates all, is the spirit: matter is of body. 
All the elements have an animating, or moving 
power, hid or bodied; they are in a certain ratio, 
those that have least, or less life, are made tqual 
in matter: this substance most affects life; when 
bodied, it is death : the return of life, is death's 
destruction: the spirit overcomes the matter; it is 
precipitated, and its total annihilation is by the 
power of fire. 

The world created by power, after a perfect form, 
is of the substance by which it stands. The spirit 
or life is in the invisible, so are they maintained. 
Life is the substance of power, life eternal. The 
eternity of the world is justly titled : time, an op- 
posed claimant, cannot hold out so long : time has 



THE CONSTITUTION". 91 

a, beginning in visible things: all power is in the 
invisible: eternity is crossed by time. 

Free from pollution or stain, perfect in creation, 
innocent in light. Life the offspring of power was 
ever in the substance of the parent This one act of 
creation is the reflected power of man, exercising his 
prerogative, producing time. Works of creation are 
from invisible to visible things: where .power is, 
things are produced from the unseen; the world 
appears: also from things seen, does produce power. 
Things seen are temporal, the work or creation of 
finite. Power in possession produces time, and hav- 
ing time, power can be obtained. The exchange of 
things is only this — visible for the invisible. The 
Garden of Eden is the terrestrial paradise — was lost 
in search of the invisible ; the revelation of power is 
a celestial paradise: a finite body lives in the power 
of the infinite, or substance of the thing created. As 
all power is in the invisible, and all unseen things 
are life, so, as a rule, visible things must die. The 
image of the world is the power thereof. Exercising 
power in things seen, is the invisible substance of 
time ; the body of time produced becomes the origin 
of matter. A body of matter is life, the only thing 
active ; matter in form, is body : matter is dead. The 
generation of visible things is death : or any born of 
time, comes to an end. The power of producing 
time, like the sun, is a visible body, of an invisible 
substance. Time is the image of man, or life per- 



92 THE CONSTITUTION. 

sonified ; every new form is the diminishing of life ; 
as the substance departs death nears or approaches. 
Time is invisible ; like the power of the body, every 
time makes a difference, and becomes visible ; mat- 
ter the sole cause of bodies being seen, the only thing 
that gives form, appears from time. The adversary 
of life has four forms. The first is the will : next the 
opportunity or time, it is manifest the visible matter 
or cause is the sentence of death. Matter and death 
are the two visible forms. Time and the will, or 
power, is invisible: matter is produced in time by 
the power of the body, a thing not seen, made visible. 
The body of death is the matter doubled, or life 
folded, the book shut ud^ In creation life dies, that 
the substances of bodies may be known ; death is tasted 
and found to be the limitation of life; after is life 
regenerated, and in the return the mortal is at rest, find- 
ing a law of life ; the departure, or going from the 
invisible, is death : life terminates in death, or death 
receives life, according to a certain law. The will is 
a central point; in descending, finds death; this must 
be estimated as the fruit of her labor; knowledge a 
thing desired is given in exchange. The light of 
the body is the substance of the head ; by its own 
light it is found convertible. Knowledge is valued 
as equal to visible things, one must die to them, be- 
fore he can attain to life. This is the discovery, or 
the door of life : matter and death are the bolts and 
bars, the descent; the knowledge of these substances 



THE CONSTITUTION. 93 

are the light, the hinge of turning, and the unfolding of 
them; death is the emrance into life, the confine of 
seen things; death unlocks the gate of life, the sen- 
tinel to guard the tree. As the shade of the sun 
marks the declining day, so night advances on the 
track of time; the circuit of his bound is life, the 
contrast of light and darkness divides the time. 

Life and death are the light and darkness of the 
body ; death finds life, and hie finds death. The loss 
of visible things is a death; the light of life, a sub- 
stance of invisible things is found. Life in search of 
knowledge is darkened as it advances; one thing 
after another is shut out, and becomes completely 
buried in its pursuits, the reward equals the labor, 
the promise of life, or substance of the body, is the 
hope of his attainment. To know rhe invisible is 
the secret spring of motion, the fire, or life of every 
body ; and also things visible are opposed, as a mat- 
ter of death. The body is sacrificed to the soul or 
power, this is their virtue or hidden life, the render- 
ing up is not without humiliation : also the soul, in 
exchanging her virtues for visible things, must sub- 
ject herself to the body. Light is the substance of 
life, and darkness of death : light and shade is the 
variable picture of life ; darkness is the corruption of 
life or the blackness of death: the colour of inno- 
cence, or unspotted life, is white. The two substan- 
ces of matter and spirit, is all that can be found in 
ihe universe: matter, the substance of things visible * 



g4 THE CONSTITUTION. 

spirit, the substance of things invisible. When the 
spirit is debased, or occupied in matter, it will par- 
take of it ; the light or formation of the spirit is- 
darkened, a gloom arises, a cloud is formed, and a 
thick covering made. There is also a retrograde 
motion : if the desire is light, then does visible things 
or matter depart ; the penetration of light turns mat- 
ter, and converts into life. 

The generation of white and black, either in colour 
or person, is in the corruption, or matter ; darkness 
whatever, is occasioned by matter, it cannot rise to- 
purity without a rectification. A body whose spirit 
reigns is life : matter is the disease or death. Sub- 
stances can only live in their kind : spirit is main- 
tained by spirit, the body upon things of the body ; 
visible things for the one, the spirit is invisible. Col- 
ours in a coloured body, are parts of matter, or sub- 
stance; white and black are the named parts; a 
mixture of them destroys each other, in the produc- 
tion of a new. The division of matter, or crossing of 
a body, is diversified in colour by the blood ; matter 
itself is dark ; fate has given it the colour of death ; 
in the admission of light, darkness is made light. 
Red is the most remote from white : these colors are 
the extremities of the law; white, the representation 
of innocence, and red, the colour of guilt or blood. 
Red and white, a compound, is the colour of flesh. 
The law itself is like a body, composed of spirit and 
matter; as long as any matter is visible, a body is not 



f'HE CONSTITUTION*. 95 

perfect. Spirit is the life of the matter, and matter 
produces life ; the formation of the spirit is the in- 
visible body, matter of form is the visible part ; mat- 
ter is produced from the invisible body; when seen 
it is a loss of power ; matter exists in a spiritual form, 
-and when its appearance is perceived it always hin- 
ders or retards ; its disposition is to descend, and not, 
•like the spirit, to go upward. A spiritual body has 
parts like a material body ; the matter of the spirit is 
invisible to the naked eye. 

The material body, or form of the invisible, has a 
-spirit, or a just proportion, an image of power ; mat- 
ter, the substance of visible form, is quantitied, or the 
proportion is first ; matter is visible ; the spirit is equal 
to the matter, little spirit goes to much matter, 
any over and above is an excess ; the perfection of a 
visible body is in matter, the spirit is hindred when- 
ever perceived. The spiritual body and the material 
body has matter each of its own ; these two bodies 
are equal, or the perfection of either may be apart, 
or together; a spiritual body may be perfect in kind, 
making use of its own dignity, or matter, an invisible 
matter to a body or conscience. This tiile, or body, 
has a tw r ofold meaning, coupled with science, in con- 
nection with matter or art ; art signifies the visible 
form given to matter, a fac simile of an invisible 
apparition ; the science of the invisible and visible 
parts of spirit, any thing concealed in the body, is 
either an accusation or an excusation : in the forma- 



96 THE CONSTITUTION. 

tion or perfecting a spiritual body, visible things are 
refused, any matter whatever is gross : on the con- 
trary, a material or visible body choses things like 
itself— separately or together they are perfected. A 
visible body has spirit or life in the matter, an invisi- 
ble body is a matter of spirit; equal parts of spirit 
makes an invisible body, equal parts of matter a 
visible body. Matter is measured by quantity, and is 
equal to spirit. 

These are the only known forms, the visible and 
the invisible, and are perfected in kind; although 
perfect, nothing visible can stand before the invisible. 
All visible things, or bodies, must die ; they live only 
in their own natures; life is hidden in the centre; 
death protects the treasures, and mortality must be 
confessed. A living sacrifice, or a perfect body, is 
broken before partaking of spirit; or the wine of 
life, like the fruit, must be bruised, before the 
virtue is rendered up. These bodies being equal, 
one is exchanged, or bought for the other; the ab- 
scence of the visible is the presence of the invisible; 
one thing is before the other, and must be done by 
distance of time ; the limit is the death of one, and 
beginning of another; the value of the one exceeds 
the other in proportion to the cost. The visible 
world and the invisible world are equal; one must 
be perfected before the other. As long as the sun 
and moon remains, so long is the triumph of a body 
so glorious. A visible body perfected is the material, 



THE CONSTITUTION. 97 

or spirit of the invisible ; integrity or uprightness is 
the perfection of a visible form. The law is life, 
when visible is against the body; bodied is unseen, 
or a crowned head. The king's will is a law to his 
subjects, or the sovereignly of the people is the crown 
of the head'. The matter of the law, or letter and 
spirit of the body are equal ; the consistency of mat- 
ter is spirit, and the matter of spirit is death ; a black 
letter upon a white ground is the written law, or a 
corrupted body. Drunkenness is the color of wine, 
and the debauchee drinks until he is blue. When 
temperance mixes the cup, the color is royal. Colors 
are bodied, or transparent, the one is a base to the 
other; matter colored is the blackness of the body, or 
the clouds of heaven; as with bodies, so with the 
elements. The law of life broken, there arises a 
mist, after, clouds are formed, and almost obscuring 
heaven, black as despair they burst in tears, sorrows 
empty themselves, and the blue sky of hope appears. 
Colour is the stain of matter ; a dead body is matter 
without life, a pale or whitened corpse : this is the 
first change, after it becomes black; the matter of 
clouds and darkness is a departure of life, a thing 
unknown, not counted, life is dishonored in aay mat- 
ter. In the creation of the world two distinct things 
are only found, the visible and the invisible ; a per- 
fect ark; simply, nothing of matter is seen. The 
body is composed of matter and spirit, therefore, in 
the reckoning, men are as the dung of the earth. 

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98 THE CONSTITUTION". 

Matter, independent of the spirit, is a devil, a body 
whose own will is his destruction ; born oi time, of 
the body of matter, continues unto death ; here his 
power ceases, having a beginning in limitation, 
knows his own end. Visible matter originates in 
the blood, the centre or life of the body ; the invisible 
body is conscience, matter unseen here begins; ne- 
glected, will make appearance in the visible body. 

The will is the centre of ihe understanding. All 
things have their beginning in life. Blood, or the 
physical life, is the heart, the vitality of the body, it 
may be called the colouring matter of the will. At 
any time a consent takes place between opposite 
things, there is a destruction of either body, a mix- 
ture, a nature foreign to itself is taken, both are pol- 
luted, one by the other; their own purity is lost, the 
virginity of the body, or blood, colours the act; it rises 
in the countenance as clouds ascend to heaven. The 
white of innocence is covered by a black; orruption 
is the work of matter, in itself it has life, not main- 
taining its body, is deposed, the devil takes posses- 
sion, the contrast is great; from light to darkness, 
from white to black ; a clear sky, or firmanemt of 
power, to one veiled in clouds. In all creation there 
is but one seed ; itself in all power, not the thing 
made, but the Maker orders all things. The unseen 
is the hid life. Light is the countenance of the in- 
visible, darkness covers the face of the evil. The 
Maker of all things is the spirit, visible and invisible ; 



THE CONSTITUTION. 9y 

each and every one independent, differing in kind* 
agreeing in substance. The spirit is of power, to do 
any thing, the only operator ; a living body is born of 
the spirit ; the consistency of the seed is within itself, 
and centres in the will ? the invisible part of life. 
Time upon time is time set. The hatchment of 
power is out of its own bowels. The will, an invisi- 
ble principle, descending to things visible, makes a 
difference that before existed not; there is a mist, a 
something visible, yet, without form. The beginning 
of time, in continuance, becomes a mystery ; a heav- 
ier cloud near struggled to reach heaven, the mind 
obscure is worse than death. The consolations of 
the body are just. In neglect, faces gathers black- 
ness, the covering requires more than mortal to pene- 
trate. The sun's image, scatters clouds and dark- 
ness, the mental ray beaming on the long forgotten, 
wakes to righteousness ; the lids of the night, so long 
closed, are opened to day. 

The knowledge of good and evil, or a body's grati- 
fication, is in the will. The power ol the body or soul 
can do as it pleases, in ascent or descent, the com- 
plexion of the will, or face of things, are changed by 
the matter, and the matter is cured by the will. A 
physical character is discovered in the matter of 
bodies. All diseases begin in the blood. Matter, or 
bile, is most from ease. Ease and disease are pro- 
duced in handling the matter ; when shut up in the 
conscience, or body, it is a disease; this begins in 



100 THE CONSTITUTION. 

blood, and ends in blood. Life is supported by life. 
In the opening of the matter a discharge is found, and 
ease returns where there is no matter. The open- 
ing and shut is the door of the matter, the will is the 
key, that binds or loses. The virtue of matter is 
physical, and a physical body is matter; in the ap- 
plication of kind is the supply of deficiency. The 
effect of a body is virtue, the defect is vice. 

White and black are matters of darkness, of posi- 
tive and negative character ; one the effect, the oth- 
er the defect. White is of the light, black is of 
darkness; one is anterior to the other. Light is of 
the substance of power, of an endless order, without 
beginning or end, without measure, an everlasting 
life. The world created by power is ever, by the 
will of him that made it, before all things, having 
pre-eminence., the substance of eternal life. The light 
put out, darkness reigns, this pales and blackness is 
not far off. Time is a dark mysterious body, a de- 
stroyer living on his own substance, black as night, 
darkening the covered body; the infernal shades are 
peopled by him, and crowned king of terrors; the 
disobedient are full of fears, colouring their own ima- 
ges. Holding bodies up to the light their colours are 
seen; this presentation is no other than the matter, 
or the beginning, created in life, visible in light ; the 
further a body recedes, the more dark it becomes. 
These substances are out of one body. Out of dark* 
».ess light is brought forth ; and the matter of light 



THE CONSTITUTION. 101 

is darkness. Power is covered in darkness, or cloud- 
ed in majesty. Power, the hid life of the world, is 
only approached unto through light. 

Light and darkness are the two substances out of 
which all colours originate. Light, or transparent 
colours, are more free from darkness. A body colour, 
or dark, contains more matter. White is the matter 
of light ; the life or light departed leaves the matter, 
or inert body ; the matter of darkness is black ; white 
and black contain all the matter of colouring, the law 
is so written. A white body may be called pure ; 
crossed by the devil, or body black, their issue is 
gold. A white, or any other body touched with 
gold, the matter is yellow; as things received, so is 
the matter. Life is supported by life; blood is the 
matter; when found in living things it is the life. 
Colours are various, and are found perfect in form. 
The vegetable kingdom in exalt, displays an Eden, 
a flower garden; the life of these are their colouring, 
or transparency of blood. The deepest die is scarlet, 
or crimson. Blood is the weightest matter of the law. 
Life, to be seen, must be acquainted with blood; 
without shedding of blood there is no remission. 
Shedding of tears is well for the body, blood only 
satisfies the spirit. Water is pure; the colouring 
matter is blood, the instinct, the matter of intellect. 
Its transparency is beheld until the wine of life, or 
the blood of the grape, is poured in. Instinct, or 
blood, begins in the animal creation. Water, as an 

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102 THE CONSTITUTION. 

element, is perfect and independent ; when analyzed, 
matter is found ; this is it that makes all differen- 
ces, matter descends. Water and earth are ihe two 
dense, the other two are rare and ascend. Water is 
colourless; as while is sometimes said to be, because 
pure. Red is of blood, and blood is the life. Mat- 
ter, or blood, is life's colouring. 

Water and eanh are the matter of bread, fire and 
air the spirit of the body. The elements are the 
components of bread. Wheat is the material life of 
the earth. Water, admitted as an element, is the 
drink of the body; as all the rivers run into the sea, 
so the body of water finds its level. This element, 
although transparent, contains matter, being visible ; 
elements not seen have a substance invisible, of the 
nature of matter, only confessed in effect. What 
power is to spirit, so is time to matter; one a natu- 
ral body, the other a spiritual. The material life of 
water is salt. Water is visible, and contains a mat- 
ter of earth ; in a pure state it is not seen; in the 
body of water, or ocean, it is found. Salt originates 
from pure water, therefore good; a principal thing, 
and first in use, first born of matter, out of the ele- 
ment of baptism ; receiving a character universal. 
The life of the air is fire, or the material is leaven. 
The material life of fire is water, the visible form is 
earth. Salt is the first matter in appearance, and is 
of water, the body is earth. The essentials of the 
elements is fire, or life. The visible life is the mate- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 103 

rial of the elementss. The element, or staff of life, 
is bread. The elements are equal to each other; a 
proportion of either is the level of the body. Bread 
and wine is the life, or elements of the body ; all the 
materials of the elements have but one visible form ; 
the essential becomes visible in wine; water receives 
the tincture of the earth, is coloured in strength, is 
converted into wine. The elements together are one 
body, the matter is blood, and the spirit is wine. 
Visible life is the spirit of bread and wine, or life of 
the body. Life visible is maintained by life visible ; 
invisible things are of spirit ; a sacrifice of body is a 
return of spirit. 

The red of blood is the colour of fire, the matter of 
fire is the blood. Fire is born of the spirit, as water 
is born of fire ; the first appearance of fire is in the 
matter, it is bodied in blood. Blood is the life visi- 
ble, and the fire of the blood is life invisible, the cen- 
tre and heart of bodies, here they meet; out of the 
heart are the issues of life; the invisible is the power 
of the body, and continues until things become visi- 
ble: a creation, or a visible body, produced out of an 
invisible one, or power. Bodies of flesh and blood, 
partake of bread and wine. The matter of bread is 
for the flesh, wine is the life of the heart, flesh and 
blood is meat and drink, the spirit of the body is 
bread, bread is without blood. When the wine or 
blood circulates or partaken then is their life; the 
body is converted or transubstantiated ; a dead body, 



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THE CONSTITUTION. 



a thing without life, a body of matter, is changed in 
a moment, in the twinkling of an eye ; the hues of 
death pass away, and the colouring of the rose turns it 
into flesh, or bread made alive, an animated body. 
Fish is the matter of flesh, as flesh is the matter of 
blood. Blood is the Jife ; as soon as any one is 
touched with it, a virtue goes out, colouring the body. 
Fish is made flesh, in the admission of blood, it is a 
meat; flesh is meat, fish is a matter of meat; meat 
itself is neither flsh nor flesh. Fish is of the water, 
a matter of blood, from a transparency gradually be- 
comes bodied, as seen in the whale. Flesh and blood 
is an animal, or beast, and the blood may not be eat- 
en, it is the vitality or life of the earth. Flesh and 
blood are bodied in earth, a visible form, and does 
not enter heaven. Nothing but a body of the spirit 
invisible, or life, can inhabit that kingdom. The 
lower kingdom of the earth is visible. Time and 
eternity are opposite in their characters as heaven 
and earth; both must pass away, being visible ; the 
earth embraces heaven in a visible form, the invisible 
image is the spirit of these. 

The earth is the mother of all living ; out of her 
womb delivers she all manner of things, or bodies, 
covered by heaven are the productions of the earth. 
The element of earth makes visible the colour, or 
matter of fire, most distant from each other, one in- 
visible, the other seen; a matter of fire is red. Fire, 
as operative in producing effects, is the principal 



THE CONSTITUTION. 105 

agent; its colour is perfect in the blood; it turns water 
into wine or blood, the earth into flesh, or bread ; 
wine is the life of the flesh. Flesh and blood are one 
body. Red as 100 of the matter is deep, made less 
by one-half is 50; the red is changed to blue. Acids 
act as fire, and on application the matter is made 
less, is not so heavy, it ascends according to its spe- 
cific gravity ; a heaven of blue. The matter of the 
earth is yellow, and takes its colour from the gold it 
contains ; pure of itself, but, like everything else, im- 
parting its nature to all. This is a heavy colour, and 
brings down the blue, to a green covering of the earth, 
not unlike ignorance, or a green hand, the mother of 
devotion ; not a primitive, but a medium of the 
vault of heaven, and the vault of the earth, nature's 
carpet. Reflected yellow, or touched with red, is 
orange, a stately birth, as all distinctions are in the 
blood. The yellow, the blue, and the red, are all in 
the violet. Blue and red is a royal color ; self-reflec- 
tion produces the scarlet or crimson. These colours 
are of the earth. In the body the heavy is found. 
The transparency is consciousness. The order of the 
seven is produced by the light. Earth is born of 
water, the prism of the body in the language of the 
spirit, the bent bow deluges the earth in tears— as a 
witness to all nations is the bow. Blood is the end 
of the law, and like must have like. All the penal- 
ties are so many articles. Others subordinate are 
produced; they are the burnt or umbered ones; 



106* THE CONSTITUTION. 

greater sufferings are undergone; the heaviest are 
the ocres, significant of a curse. 

The law is perfect. All the colouring matter is 
of the earth: black and white, are a matter of light 
and darkness, or a body of earth : if the matter is 
more dark, then is it a black body : nature supports 
her own. A perfect body of darkness, is black in 
colour : a white body, is a child of light : children 
of light and darkness are from one power; they are 
visible, inasmuch as colour is named — for wherever 
seen, matter is. Light is of darkness: darkness co- 
vered the deep. " Let there be light — and there 
was light." Darkness is the power of the visible 
world, or the sealed book. The Revelation is light : 
visible things arise out of darkness, as the light is 
admitted, or a transformation of body. Light is the 
substance of power: in the light, or body of power, 
there is no darkness at all. 

Matter is the substance of the visible part of crea- 
tion : the life of the matter, is the making of a 
Theist. The spirit is a substance of the invisible 
part. The matter of the spirit is the making of a 
Deist. Matter and spirit make a body. The sub- 
stances are convertible, or a transubstantiation. 
Matter disappears in life. The spirit is the power 
to produce matter ; and likewise matter in quantity, 
produces spirit ; of the things that are, a living body 
is found. A Theist and Deist, are opposite to 
each other, materially and essentially; also inde- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 107 

pendent. The substances of the visible body, or ten, 
in union, are one. Man is the visible substance, or 
form of the earth ; woman is the invisible part of 
man — the heaven of the body ; heaven and earth, 
two bodies, united in one world. Heaven is of the 
earth, as the earth is of heaven; one supports the 
other ; or life. Heaven is the substance of the spirit ; 
earth is the substance of matter; the hidden forms, 
or invisible parts, are life. The heaven, as a body, 
brings forth her increase- — the fruit of the earth ; 
and the earth is raiseJ to heaven in the exercise of 
power. Invisible things are made to appear, from 
visible ; again, the visible is returned to the invisi- 
ble, or power. The substance of heaven is out of 
the earth ; and the substance of the earth is out of 
heaven — soul and body, the heaven and earth of 
man, or life. 

The invisible matter of the iuvisible part of crea- 
tion, is the making of a theologist, a visible life, of 
a spiritual matter: things not seen, are revealed; 
invisible things, from matter invisible, or life. The 
spirit invisible, is of the power of creation. Things 
revealed, are returned to the invisible, or the making 
of Divinity. The spirit is the life of a theologian ; 
the matter, the power of a divine. 

The invisible element of fire, is the beginning of 
power, or electron. All power is in the invisible: 
the matter is the visible part. Divinity has the ele- 
ment of fire, as an invisible power. A theologian 



108 THE CONSTITUTION. 

has the words of life, or a matter of spirit : the mat" 
ter oi spirit, is fire ; and the matter of fire, is air — 
an invisible element, like fire, effective. The two 
are made one, in the invisible. The power of a 
divine, is of the body, or theology: the power of a 
theologist, is matter invisible, or spirit; the power 
of a divine, is to produce a visible thing ; a theo- 
logian's power, is to produce an invisible substance 
out of a visible one. The spirit begets the matter, 
and the matter the spirit. The desire of visible 
things, or bodies, are to the invisible, and the invisi- 
ble takes pleasure in creation. Divinity is the invi- 
sible power, or life; theology the form of invisible 
life. Form is visible, power invisible; form is the 
image of power ; the substance of power is the mat- 
ter of form ; matter the only thing that makes visi- 
ble. These bodies are independent ; each after a 
particular element. Fire and air are invisible, and 
only known by effects : air as a matter to fire, is 
subject, making an invisible body, or prince : fire f 
the power of air. 

Form and power, are the two bodies of matter 
and spirit; united, is the invisible image. Form 
is of power; spirit is the substance of power ; mat- 
ter the substance of form. The visible form is the 
earth, of an invisible substance: the visible power 
of the body, is the soul, or heaven : the uniiy of 
matter and spirit, is one body. The earth visible 
and heaven united, is the visible image; the visible 



THE CONSTITUTION. 109 

image, or form, is of the invisible ; and the invisible 
image, or power, is found in the visible. Form and 
power, are bodies visible and invisible; the sub- 
stances of these are matter and spirit. The earth 
is of form, the heaven is of power. After the hea- 
vens were made, next the waters were separated 
from the dry land. In the creation, or act of power, 
or producing a visible form, either a particle or 
world, power covers power. The Invisible raises up 
out of nothing, visible bodies ; first, the earth, as an 
element : it is a particle or participating of a body. 
The visible earth divides the substance of power, 
containing within itself an equal part ; it is called 
the back of the image of power, according to a law. 
Visible things cover or hinder the invisible. Power 
centres itself; although invisible, is seen in form. 
Out of the earth, the visible body first produced, are 
brought forth the visible heavens, dividing itself, 
or bestowing one-half of substance, making equal. 
The earth is out of darkness, or the matter of power, 
an invisible substance, or spirit. Created in matter, 
all bodies receive it of the earth, and are proportion- 
ably visible. Heaven and earth are visible forms, 
and are as matter and spirit, to each other, or one 
body ; in the process of creation, alternately bodies 
are dense or rare, one supports the other. The hea- 
vens are supported by the earth, and the earth is 
maintained by heaven. Out of heaven the waters 
descend; also the earth in her separation produces 

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110 THE CONSTITUTION. 

water, or seas. The first two forms of power, are 
heaven and earth, one out of the other. The heaven, 
or power of the earth, is spirit, the invisible sub- 
stance : here is perceived a rule of operation — the 
invisible brings forth things visible, and the visible 
returns to the invisible : all things move and have 
their being, in power. The earth is a visible 
body. The heavens, or power of the earth, are 
proportionably invisible ; one-half the substance, 
or a body with less matter : the law of observation 
is, matter descends, the spirit ascends. Power, the 
creator holds the matter in suspension. The earth 
is a body of matter; the heavens are of the earth, 
and are raised as high as the power will admit : 
being equal, there is a poise of the body. Heaven 
and earth are visible bodies; one less in matter, or 
quantity; made equal in quality, or spirit. Matter 
in descent is the base of all bodies ; the spirit the 
elevation ; they also are equal, and maintain each 
other, producing a visible standard, or height. The 
matter of elevation is the upright, either sides being 
equal ; perfection is visible : the invisible image of 
power, may be called perfection. This is an impor- 
tant part : out of the invisible there appears a visible 
standard, a matter of universal assent. All bodies 
possessing it, are regulated by the invisible. 

There are material things, and things essential, 
in the nature of bodies ; matter the darkness, and 
spirit the light, or a divided day. The matter of 



THE CONSTITUTION. Ill 

earth is the darkness, and the light of heaven is the 
spirit ; the night and day of the earth : the matter of 
earth is night, and the day the spirit, or the mate- 
rial light. 

The power of the earth is in heaven ; the invisi- 
ble substance of the earth, bodies of fire, are in 
heaven, or element. A perfect body is life. Look 
how high the heavens are from the earth, so far is 
the matter from the spirit. Heaven is a light body, 
but contains matter; they are not clean ; the matter 
of power is the water they contain, or a divided 
body in the separation. Water descends a visible 
body. The spirit of the earth is heaven, the matter 
of heaven is water ; ascended as spirit, descended as 
matter; the power of the water is the air, an invisi- 
ble body, ascending beneath the heavens and above 
the waters. Gradually, from the beginning of crea- 
tion, bodies or things are refined ; first in a gross or 
crude state without form ; the materials of the build- 
ing, after piece by piece, or one by one, are fashioned 
while as yet there was none of them. The soul of 
the earth is void. Until the heavens are created 
there is no exercise of power. The heaven is of the 
earth. Earth is a body of matter visible ; the invisi- 
ble power or soul is the spirit ; the centre of the 
earth. The heavens being visible are occasioned by 
the matter of earth, a body solely of matter; the life 
of this body is measured by quantity ; the colour also, 
is of its own power or body. Gold is the centre of 



112 THB CONSTITUTION. 

the earth. The earth may be called the male, or 
covering of the heavens. The woman is of the man, 
the centre of his body, the life. 

Earth and heaven are proper names for bodies. 
One is a soul or help to each other. The earth finds 
life in heaven, and heaven finds life in the earth. 
The free and the bond or a rule of the body. The 
earth is all matter, and exchanges with heaven, 
praying for the spirit. The heavens descend or bow to 
the matter. The two bodies of heaven and earth have 
an universal distinction, or difference ; one a body of 
matter, the other a body of spirit ; one visible, the 
other invisible. Earth and water are visible, fire and 
air invisible. The substance of the earth are the 
two first, the substance of an invisible body is air and 
water. The heavens being visible are perfected in 
matter; they declare a glory, they show forth a 
handy work. Matter is the first thing observed, or 
an impediment to progress ; power is current for the 
quality of bodies; the visible quantity of matter 
presupposes or argues an equal power. Herein is a 
standard or law of nature. All bodies are made up 
of the two substances of matter and spirit. Let the 
spirit produce the matter, and the matter the spirit, 
it will be seen or known how near perfection a body 
is by rightly dividing the word, or the body of the 
invisible. 

Out of the visible earth arises the invisible power 
of the world. Creation is a perfect work ; everything 



THE CONSTITUTION. 113 

is made equal : there is a visible body, and there is 
an invisible body ; the one as a soul to the other. As 
in the visible world, so in the invisible world. As 
matter is animated by the spirit, a body of matter 
becomes a living being. The substances of heaven 
and earth perfects a body. To make man heaven is 
taken, or woman ; the materials are reciprocal. Life 
is in the matter, the substance of power. The soul 
of a man has the tenderness of a woman, and the 
power of the woman is the Head, or light of the body. 
Man is the visible image or form, taken out of the 
visible world. Man and woman are one body, as 
the heavens and the earth are one world. The male 
substance has a decided character ; it is the matter 
of the body or negative. The female is the soul of 
the body or spirit positive. Matter, in organization, 
takes its form from an invisible standard or perfect 
image. The creator is a body of power bringing 
forth treasures new and old. Matter is the only 
thing visible in nature ; and, as a rule, proportion- 
ably seen ; regulating at the same time the article 
of vision. The extent of matter is the longitude; 
and the point of vision is where one body ends, and 
the other begins. Matter is a perfect body, and has 
solidity for a standard. The female is of the invisi- 
ble part or face ; the angel or countenance of the spirit. 
It is necessary to follow the order of creation. Mat- 
ter is first visible ; out of darkness born — after, the 
spirit : both are of power. 

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114 THB CONSTITUTION. 

The back and the face, are parts, visible of the in- 
visible — each body possesses both, or image. The 
desire of woman is the matter, or man; and the 
desire of man is the woman. Matter or form is a 
perfect body, itself having parts ; the back and face, 
the light or face, is the life of the matter. 

Time is the spirit or life of the matter. Time was 
not until man was made. Out of the body of matter 
the Dial appears, or the face of the earth is the index 
of the heart. Out of power, form is produced, matter 
of form, time of the matter, and death of time : four 
different forms of one substance. Power and form 
are perfect, form being the image of power, or con- 
vertible bodies. Form seeks power, power seeks 
form, or perfection. Imperfect bodies, or human 
nature, are produced by visible things. Matter visible 
is the imperfection of bodies. To obtain the matter 
a body must be broken, a thing imperfect ; a body is 
of form, perfect. Out of the body matter is produced ; 
a visible substance of a visible body. The spirit of 
the body is the time of the matter. Matter and time 
bodied is a cease of life, or death. Time is the in- 
visible spirit of life diminishing or hastening to its 
end ; matter the visible substance or dust of the earth. 

In the diminishing of life there is an increase of 
matter. The matter of life, an invisible substance, 
is the time of the body. Matter is visible, either in 
male or female, in accomplishing their desire. To 
be wise, bodies must know each other. 



THB CONSTITUTION. 115 

Time is the matter of form, the invisible part, or 
spirit. Form is the visible body of power. Time 
the invisible body of form. Matter the invisible body 
of time. Every change, or convertion, is either a 
visible to an invisible one, or an invisible to a visible. 
Time is the power, the life of the matter. Time is 
of the visible creation, out of form; the spirit of the 
body, an invisible substance. 

Time and power are equal ; the gain of one is a 
loss of the other. The matter of the body is visible, 
without life. All things visible, matter or bodies, 
must die, before they can arrive at power. Wisdom 
is the invisible body, centered in visible things ; or 
bodies: but to touch one of them the law of life con- 
demns to death, the poise of the body is lost, and can- 
not stand. Power is invisible, and the body is 
divinity. Visible things are temporal ; they live 
in themselves. Invisible are eternal. A body must 
pass through things temporal so as not to lose eternal 
things. Body and soul are equal. Visible things 
for the body ; invisible are mental. To obtain the 
things, the soul or mind must be petitioned ; and the 
light of the body is the keeping of the soul. The 
visible world is a poise for the invisible world; the 
materials of the old, is the spirit of the new ; life 
finds death, and death finds life ; first and last are 
perfect, the only difference found is the substances of 
good and evil ; one a benefit, the other a distress ; or 
the light of the body. The form intellectual given 



116 THE CONSTITUTION. 

to this principle, or beginning of wisdom, is reason — 
a body of equal parts, poising itself, or keeping erect; 
on one side good invites, the other threatens ; the 
light of the understanding takes the narrow path, out 
of the parts, a way. 

Light leads to life, and life to power. The life of 
the body, or lower world, is the image of things seen, 
or wisdom, an invisible form or power. The visible 
form or body, constitutes the invisible power of a 
created world. Visible things originate in the in- 
visible, and power centered, converts at pleasure ; or 
changes one thing to another, always an opposite ; if 
visible, then an invisible image ; accounting for the 
truth, opposite things are united in truth. A lie is 
an opposite, or the false and true are parts of a divi- 
ded body. Opposite things are a neutral title, be- 
longing not more to one than another. Two persons 
or things make one body. The man and woman are 
one. The man is the matter of the earth, or dust, 
one of the substances of the body. The woman is 
the spirit, an invisible part, the face of creation or 
matrix. As a body of matter is equal to the spirit, 
so is their life in the matter. The woman is visible 
in the matter of the man, in creation, an ascending 
or descending series, bodies are refined. Out of the 
earth man is taken, or made, fashioned in the lower 
parts or rude materials, after is raised to life. A pot- 
ter turns his vsessel to the pattern or mould of his 
make, the image of his mind invisible, brings out in 



THE CONSTITUTION. 117 

form such things as pleases him. The sculptor, 
from a block of marble, throws off all rude parts, 
bodies a thing in proportion, or life. This is a prop- 
erty of the invisible or standard, matter in certain 
qualities ; represents the life. Life is also visible in 
matter. A flint is as matter to the spirit (for all in- 
visible things or power is in the spirit. As a con- 
trary to this, all visible things is the matter of the 
body). When struck it emits a spark, or life ; this 
is the first appearance of fire in a visible form, and 
continues until it reaches the centre or heart of the 
body; fuel is the matter of its support. From the 
stones or minerals all more or less contain fire, de- 
scending to the earth; her body also generates 
through heat. It is turned up as it were through 
fire; things or bodies that have life are out of her 
bowels. From a flint, a visible spark ; to a diamond, 
a spark invisible. Here is the idea of a latent life, 
or image of the sculptor. Like the flint in the hand 
of the operator, so is power to the earth. Let there be 
light, it is but adding fuel to the fire, and a light or 
blaze may be had. Let us make man. The spirit 
and the matter unites and makes a body. The sun 
as a body of power, generates from matter. The 
body of matter is burning with desire, the inherent 
substance or life. The light of the body is woman, 
of a more combustible nature or refined body. The 
breath of each other is a spontaneous combustion ; 
any volatile essence or spirit, neighbouring a body of 



118 THE CONSTITUTION. 

matter, fire or life is produced. The two substances 
of matter and spirit, in equal parts, giving quantity to 
matter, and quality to spirit, is the life. The spirit 
is proof in the matter of life. A dead body raised to 
life, or a live body crucified, is an operation of the 
spirit. 

The invisible part or spirit is the ascent of the 
body. The visible or matter the descent. A union 
or marriage is by consent. A separation in life is 
when a body takes different directions. Life departs, 
or the light goes out, as the matter is making ; as 
the invisible recedes, the visible appears. The lati- 
tude of one is the longitude of the other. Matter or 
body is visible, perfect inform; spirit is invisible, 
perfect in power. A perfect form is not seen, the 
spirit covers. Life is the substance, or a thing of 
praise. 

Wisdom, or the back, is the image of the visible 
world. The invisible, or countenance of created 
things, is the face, the power of creation, or soul of 
the body. 

Man and woman are as body and soul. The man 
is not without the woman, nor the woman without 
the man ; equal to each other, visible and invisible. 
From the visible body, a creative power, or wis- 
dom is bodied ; and from the world invisible, or 
power, a visible body. The materials of one is the 
substance of the other. The possession of the visible 
is the exchange of the invisible, or a body is sacri- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 119 

ficed. Death is a point of wisdom to know. Matter 
is the power of a visible body, no man can see 
the invisible and live, a point where the visible body 
ends, and the invisible begins. The law the broad 
cast of the body. Matter and spirit mingling or 
mixing, destroy themselves. The fruit of the mar- 
riage is time. The power oi the body or visible 
world is the soul, invisible, or wisdom ; the consis- 
tency of the visible body is spirit, matter is the visi- 
ble part. A broken body is a destroyed body ; in- 
stead of standing it falls. The moment a body de- 
parts from uprightness, time begins to make, and the 
limit or duration is in proportion to the power. The 
substance or body is ever. Power is invisible, and 
nothing but the invisible is ever. 

Visible things are the offspring of might. Per- 
fect in standing, or a just balance, time, the heir of 
life, destroys or spends the labour of his forefathers ; 
opposed to life, makes direct for death. Bodies 
produced by power are made to stand. This is as 
much as can be done. Between the body made and 
the Maker there is a law positive, so far shalt thou 
go. The visible body or world is the limit of power, 
or the invisible world is the image of the visible. 
Fruits of the invisible, or substances of power, are 
ever a tree of life. Visible fruits, are of the tree of 
knowledge : good and evil are their kind. A body 
made or compounded of these two substances, of 
matter and spirit, are the visible part, or back of 



120 THE CONSTITUTION. 

power ; the other invisible, or the face ; perfect in 
soul and body, they being equal, must if the poise 
be lost, incline to one or the other. Spirit attracts 
spirit, or kindred substances draw near to each other. 
Life is divided, but knowledge interposes : matter or 
a visible body is outward : life or spirit is within : to 
pass through, the body must be broken. In posses- 
sion it is the light of the body or parts, good and evil 
characters the fruit. In breaking the body, or de- 
stroying a perfect thing, it is evil : substance is good, 
one half lost in the gratification and engendering 
time. The substance obtained, rewards the labour : 
the matter thrown away, is the substance of time. 
After a body is produced a maintenance is necessary, 
equal to the task, produced in time. Matter is al- 
ways visible, the spirit invisible : the immortality of 
the body is in life. Life is of power, the first born ; 
light, the substance of life ; and truth, the pillar, 
stands for ever. Life is most precious; being invisi- 
ble, no one thing visible can compare, it is hid under 
matter, and all that tbere is of it. Time, or a fall- 
ing body, nears its end, the invisible part of matter, 
and the matter bodied, is death. Dark and myste- 
rious body is it. The power of death is the devil. 
What an embrace, a sworn enemy. This substance 
is the residium of matter, every particle of life is 
consumed ; a substance once visible, now lost sight 
of. Despair is the darkness of death, as the life is 
consumed, or the light of life goes out, the spirit of 



THE CONSTITUTION. 121 

search, or hidden life, begins to make. The light of 
the spirit is hope, it dawns or breaks through the 
matter of the dark. As soon as the light appears it 
gives indications of day. Light is a body of form, 
composed of spirit. The spring of life is before the 
summer. Visible bodies take root downward, and 
spring upward : the reward equals the labour. Life 
is found. Life is invisible, mortality is visible: a 
decrease of life is an increase of matter, or visible 
substance : death a body of matter, or substance of 
life. A visible body finds an invisible ; the invisi- 
ble a visible. Time and eternity are habitations of 
either. A perfect body of matter, or terrestrial and 
a celestial, or one of spirit, in unity, is life. A body 
visible is temporal, an invisible eternal. Matter is 
the substance of life, convertible at pleasure: exist- 
ing as matter is visible, subject to time; returned 
into spirit is invisible. A body invisible, or life, is 
immortal : there is nothing visible, nothing that can 
die, all is life. The wisdom of the thing, or the in* 
visible body known, is the secret of life. Life at first 
is perfect, or man and woman: the substances of 
the same united are one. The union of man and 
wife, or a visible body, is through knowledge : parts 
are the light, or male and female: prosperity the 
good, and adversity the evil of the body. Visible 
good or being prosperous is the loss of life : adverse 
is an invisible good or life, a body returned from 
where he started or estated : knowledge the reward, 



122 THE CONSTITUTION. 

or light of the body. Life found in adversity is not 
unlike the same spirit strengthened. Death is more 
than adverse to life, the death of death, or the light 
out of darkness is the immortality of the body. The 
fruit of a visible body is life in form. Form is per- 
fect: born of power, inheriting the father's sub- 
stance. Form is the back or shadow of power, or 
wisdom of the earth. The substance of power is 
invisible, the wisdom of heaven. Form is taken of 
the earth : the body is represented as man, or knowl- 
edge the light of the body, of matter and spirit : the 
parts will only unite in proportion, observing a law 
universal, establishing a perfect standard. The fruit 
of the union is form, it being of the earth, receiving 
the impressions of the body, and the body from the 
creator, or power. 

In the lower world power is visible, in its own 
works. Perfection is the stamp of the invisible. 
Form is the visible power of the visible earth: the 
invisible form or heaven of the man is woman. She 
is the light of the body, or church : wisdom is her 
name, the invisible form of power. Man and wo- 
man are like heaven and earth, all the world to each 
other. Form visible or invisible is of power, or the 
substances of the visible world. Heaven and earth 
are two bodies of the world, or wisdom. Knowledge 
is of matter and spirit; the elements of these are in 
the body : the woman as rare, the man as dense, or 
the ABC, the beginning and end, or the alpha and 



THE CONSTITUTION. 123 

omega. In the separation of the body, wherein is 
knowledge, the rare and dense of the elements are 
found : one the production of matter, the other the 
spirit. Matter bodied is earth, heaven bodies the 
spirit. Knowledge is of the elements. Wisdom of 
the body. The substance of knowledge are parts 
put together, or head invisible : there are elements 
invisible, and there are visible elements. The 
knowledge of one, and the wisdom of the body, is of 
the visible world. The invisible, or spirit of power, 
creates a new world. The centre and power of the 
world is first found : this is through the matter, or 
difficulty. After the spirit converts the matter, the 
visible body of wisdom, into an invisible world or 
power, nothing more remains but the form ; this to 
know, bodies heaven and earth, or substances of 
bodies, visible and invisible. 

Visible substances are representations of truth, or 
forms. The invisible substance is power. Forms 
pass from life to death, from death to life, or are 
resurrected : the matter of the body descends, the 
spirit ascends. The centre of the earth is the point 
of difference, or mediation : matter gives up, the 
spirit turns to life. The point of difference between 
the human and divine nature is, one visible; the 
other invisible. Visible things descending are more 
apparent ; there is an acceleration, also more dense 
or gross, at first effectual only, then apparent : after, 
their hue or colour is changed ; nearing to darkness : 



124 THE CONSTITUTION. 

the nature of their make, or the light diminishing 
unto the end. Bodies being equal find their centres, 
the pivot of their turning. The heart is the life of 
the body, a visible or physical matter, descending to 
the gratification of the body. The heart is broken, 
the weight of the matter is raised by the spirit ; the 
power of these united substances is wisdom or life. 

The soul is the power of the body, physical wisdom 
is the matter : spirit is invisible, and bodied in power, 
or the ethical. 

The body of wisdom is physical, or an invisible 
matter : the power of the visible or heart of the 
world : here is observed one body bending to another, 
or making obeisance, the attraction of all thats visi- 
ble, the divine nature. The earth bends to heaven, 
establishing a paradise. Life is a crown, immortal ; 
and a king is the image of the visible world. Hu- 
man nature is opposite to the divine : like matter, 
descends, and the distance is the travel of the body : 
every step is contrary to life. In turn the spirit raises 
the body, or puts on the divine: satisfied with labour, 
returns into rest. Life is the fixed point, or the mark, 
prize, or any figurative name indicating the value or 
visible signification : it is an invisible substance, 
immortal ; found through mortality, or things visible. 
Life is an invisible body, is of two substances oppo- 
site to each other. The spirit of the body is the life, 
or human nature, the matter of the body is death. 
Truth in a body stands for ever. Creation is a per- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 125 

feet work, or an equalized body. Form and power 
compose the body. The matter of death is the spirit 
of life ; the body unclothes itself, or lays down to 
sleep, and awakes in life. The object of the soul is 
invisible, and all things visible must be passed 
through before she can reach her place of rest; this 
is the centre of attraction, the point of wisdom. As 
it respects the body it is wise — setting a greater value 
upon attainments. Life temporal is the substance of 
visible things, or the life of the earth ; the revelation 
is heaven, or visible wisdom. Woman is the soul 
or power of the earth ; the twain are one body. The 
wisdom of the world is the matter of eternal life ; 
matter or visible things must be converted or changed 
into life. The wisdom invisible, or body of heaven, 
is as a bride for the power of the earth, a king and 
queen, or life by marriage. Light and life are the 
two substances of truth, or life eternal. 

Human nature ceases, or is governed by time ; 
personified by a visible head. The divine is ever, or 
invisible; light is the substance of visible bodies; 
life, the matter invisible. Light and life, are bodied 
in truth : whatever the light declares, or makes vis- 
ible, is substantiated in life ; forms are the substan- 
ces of bodies ; life is a visible representation of the 
light, or the declared truth. Man and woman, as 
one body, are the visible form, or life of the earth; 
the life of heaven is of power; the sun rules the 
day, the moon is queen of night. The wisdom of 



126 THE CONSTITUTION. 

heaven, and the wisdom of the earth, opposite as they 
are, unite in power ; all visible forms are the life of 
the earth ; invisible forms are of power, or heaven. 
Forms are four, and each after an element; the 
beasts of the earth, the birds of the air, the fishes 
of the sea, man, the life of these, or living in the 
element of fire. Forms invisible, are the power of 
the body, or life of the visible world ; the four ele- 
ments in unity are one body ; the four bodies are one 
spirit, or man. Creeping things are less erect, and 
the subtlety of the spirit, is taken from the serpent. 
The spirit of the earth, or substance of the body is 
power ; the four elements, or man, is taken out of the 
visible earth, an epitome, or history. A body is of 
the elements, and the spirit is of the body; bodies are 
visible, spirit not seen ; a body of matter is life, mat- 
ter, produces spirit ; and spirit the matter, working 
together both ways, so that the first shall be last, and 
the last first : the difference between the wisdom of 
the earth, and the wisdom of heaven, is in the direc- 
tion ; one is downwards, the heavens are upward ; 
the seed of the fruit, takes root downward, and 
springs upward ; the root is of the matter, the leaf 
the spirit : the visible, and invisible wisdom are 
images of each other ; things that are seen, declare 
the power or wisdom of the spirit; unseen things, or 
power, produces visible things : power is centred, 
and the midst is the point of turning ; what is visible, 
returns to the invisible, or seeks power, what is visible, 



THE CONSTITUTION. 127 

or power, erects a new world ; the first man is a body 
of earth, or visible wisdom, the second is the spirit, 
or heavenly wisdom ; body and soul are parts ; one 
visible, the other not seen. The seed of the body is 
a substance seen; the seed of the soul, a substance 
invisible ; matter is visible, the spirit invisible ; a 
production or work of matter is physics ; a work of 
the spirit is ethics. The matter and spirit of a body 
^re equal ; originating in the elements, one a posi- 
tive, the other a negative character, one a body in 
life, the other a body of death ; a dead body is raised 
by the spirit ; a living one, dies in the matter ; power 
in any other body or form, is a negative, a contrary, 
or disposition. Form is of power, the substance of the 
body ; life is the composition, or the eternal ; form is 
ever, being perfect ; an invisible substance or life of 
the visible creation : the wisdom of the earth. Form 
is the spiritual body of the invisible world; power is 
the spirit, or soul. In the creation or producing of 
a world, wisdom is displayed, or spread. Before the 
invisible, the heavens are rolled up as a scroll. 
The power of the earth, is life ; or a crowned head, a 
visible representation or image of the Invisible, or 
King of Kings. Form of the earth, is the substance 
of the visible power, or the body of matter and 
spirit ; knowledge of parts, are the two substances ; 
the light of the earth. 

Power and form of visible, also form and power of 
invisible things, one is the body, the other the soul 



128 THE CONSTITUTION. 

of the universe. The soul is the power of the body, 
and the form is the body of the soul, or a world in- 
visible; visible things, are contrary to invisible ; the 
nature of things regulating themselves, or a law 
universal, the constitution of the body. A body 
without power, is dead, seeks and finds; a body in 
power, makes a display, and shows his wisdom ; mat- 
ter is a visible thing, and spirit an invisible thing ; 
constituting the body ; one has a negative character, 
it is bodied in death ; the other a positive, bodied in 
life. These opposites of life and death, are the 
strongest of all bodies; life destroys death, and death 
destroys life ; one body can only exist at one time ; 
life reigning the body is in power ; death reigning, 
the power is in visible things. The nature of things, 
or a body's inclination, is a departure from upright- 
ness ; forward or backward in time, life makes an 
exit ; time is the penalty of the law, when a body 
looses power, the balance is in favor of time ; matter 
is the substance, a visible part of time, bodied is 
death. Time redeemed, is the life of the matter, a 
body of matter is a perfect form of earth, knowledge 
the parts, or elements of the body ; one thing is oppo- 
site to another, visible and invisible, is the strength 
of the law. The senses are five, they are of the body 
of the elements; two visible, and two invisible ; the 
spirit or body is the fifth, separately are four, as one 
in spirit. The eye is the fire of the body, the ear has 
the element of air, these are invisible partaking of 



THE CONSTITUTION. 129 

matter, inasmuch as sound is heard. Sight has a visi- 
ble substance or light of an invisible one, the element 
of fire. The next element is water, partially light or 
transparent possessing sound ; also a property of its 
own, the life or essence, the scent of bodies ; this is 
applied to the nose, the nature of the air, is the trans- 
parency of water, and the odour or the body rises in 
the air, the nose is the centre of the face, a point be- 
tween the visible and invisible, or an effect. Taste or 
touch, is of the earth; imparting its substance, or the 
mouth ; the fifth is the sense of all these, or the 
spirit ; bodies or things, are male or female, or visible 
and invisible. The body visible or outward has five 
senses, the invisible body or mind has five, one half 
visible, the other invisible ; or five positive and five 
negative. These may be called the articles of the 
law, as it comprehends all the elements bodied in 
knowledge. A perfect freedom have each sense, being 
in their element; out of either is a transgression; 
fire or the eye, may look upon a body or woman, but 
may not touch ; a positive command, of a negative 
body ; the contact of a look, kindles to a blaze, and 
are consumed one of another, The positive and 
negative parts of the law are independent of each 
other and are opposite. The invisible may not be 
touched ; the visible may be looked upon ; love is the 
quality of the body invisible, or woman ; man and 
woman, are the substances of the world ; one an 
earthly body, the other a heavenly ; one of matter, 



130 THE CONSTITUTION. 

the other spirit, both as one, the power of the world 
or the invisible, the back and face of nature. 

The wisdom of the body, and the wisdom of the 
soul ; one a visible, the other not seen, the twain, are 
one body. Love is as strong as death ; a union of two 
bodies, destroy each other in the make of a third. 
Love is born of light, or the woman's soul ; time is 
the shadow of the substance, whose end is death. 
The punishment of the Invisible, is in visible things, 
and visible things are punished in the invisible ; time 
limits the deed, or act, a body that hastens to an 
end. 

The two bodies, one visible, the other invisible; 
are one against the other, or the outward and inward 
are different directions ; one a law to the other, the 
trespass is leaving their element, or calling; each 
sense has a presiding angle ; the punishment, or re- 
ward, is in the thing sought, it becomes visible in the 
loss of life. 

Life is the invisible property of the body, it may 
not be touched, to look upon is to live ; man is the 
visible form or image of the invisible, may be touch- 
ed not looked upon ; a woman to look upon a man, is 
to set him on fire ; compassion or love for love, is a 
touch of the heart, or visible body ; matter may be 
touched; spirit is beheld, as seeing the invisible. 
The wording of this law, is in the reply your neigh- 
bor makes ; either first or last, is accordingly. He 
may not be touched, are the words of the visible 



THE CONSTITUTION. 131 

body; matter suffers contact, spirit does not; matter 
gravitates to matter; spirit is attracted by spirit; the 
centre of the world is a point of view. A look is 
through the eye, mentally or morally ; as in the 
spirit, so in the matter of the body, the moral of the 
body is a mental matter, mentally is of power ; both 
invisible. To look, bodies the soul, or the five in- 
ward senses collectively is the spirit in formation. 
The outward form or organs, are the visible senses ; 
may be touched, a mental expression for a visible 
thing; to touch, bodies the five outward senses ; con- 
tact is the point of difference. The eye itself, like a 
spark, or light of the body, sees through a transpa- 
rent medium ; the water or tears, dim the vision, or 
the matter of hindrance. The next element is earth, 
or contact with the eye, or touched, from a pure, to a 
polluted state; the sensitive plant dies as soon as 
touched; the eye is all seeing, mentally and physi- 
cally the point or centre of vision ; is between the 
two. One the inward, the eye of the mind ; invis- 
ible, the other outward, or visible ; matter prevents 
vision, sight is a pure medium. The hand is the 
matter of the body or physical ; touch is of the mat- 
ter, a visible body ; the broad distinction as in bodies 
visible or invisible, one may look, and not touch ; the 
other touch, and not look. The effect is a convertion 
of one substance into another ; to touch the invisible 
is to live, — the visible to die. The visible to touch, 
the invisible must look, or change its nature, put on 



132 THE CONSTITUTION, 

a spiritual body, the loss or sacrifice is its own body. 
The will, subject to another, is a dependant or servant ; 
the loss of liberty or life, is compensated in matter 
or gold; the more matter, is the less spirit; and 
things are visible, as the matter appears; the first 
trespass is through the eye, the life is taken by a vis- 
ible body; the loss of the spirit is in the countenance 
or looks ; the matter against the body is Time. The 
invisible, or soul of the body, is woman, perfect, 
without fault, after transgression, is mindful of her 
looks, or beauty. The man is touched by time, or 
banishment of paradise ; the loss of life is a loss of 
character. Fire is the vital principle, or chief ele- 
ment, a pure medium may be looked upon; not 
touched ; it burns like time to destruction. The next 
element brings its own matter, effected by the first, 
it remains to condemnation. The air is propertied 
in sound, not so pure as fire by the weight of offence, 
a medium or rare, with matter enough for hearing; 
this element is for the ear. One, the outward, is 
visible; the other, inward, the still small voice, 
strikes the inward sense : a more audible falls upon 
the ear, even the deep-toned thunder. The matter 
of the elements are articles of fear. The air is 
known by effects, the matter is such, a supporter of 
life ; hearing the voice of the invisible, or soul, is a 
matter of alarm; heavens ordinance is against slan- 
der, or a visible communication. 
Fear is an opposite to love, in the loss of the in- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 133 

visible; fear makes : time at first imperceptibly over- 
comes; the second act adds weight to the first. 
Water has more matter, making a visible body. 
The other two elements are invisible. The soul and 
the body, though the matter dies, one only of the 
two can live, or agree in one. If the body, then in 
things visible, the soul only in the invisible. Form 
is perfect, and perfection is ever remembered, or im- 
mortal, born of power. A body dies, is visible : 
every thing visible must die, and matter is the 
weight of the body of death. Water dies; water is 
a visible body, born of the spirit, one half or power 
of the invisible, equal or rightly divided. The invisi- 
ble or power produces visible things, and visible 
things produce the invisible. Life is the substance 
of them. One not seen is eternal, the other visible, 
limited by time ; the knowledge of the matter is the 
light of life. The first element was pure, the next 
affected, the third visible : matter the occasion. 
The first sense is seeing, the next hearing ; the differ- 
ence in these two is the sound, matter is accelerated 
in a pure medium, but the air impedes the progress 
of light. Life is more precious, and hidden by mat- 
ter, as all things are equal in equity. The body 
must be broken or crucified. Life is in equal parts, 
visible and invisible. There is an inward and an 
outward sense, convertible at pleasure. The wis- 
dom of the body is in either part, separately inde- 
pendent ; a servant or dependant out of their own 

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134 THE CONSTITUTION. 

element. The third element is water, the life of 
visible bodies, or vegetable kingdom. Flowers are 
refined, the female of the tree; they give out odours, 
or sweet smell ; a delicate matter rising to the nose, 
the sense of smelling ; a point where the visible 
ceases and the invisible begins, the centre of the 
face; the difference between the outward and in- 
ward sense of smelling is the character of the body, 
being visible or invisible : matter testifies to pres- 
ence ; inward matter is inwardly received ; outward, 
as such ; in this sense matter touches the body, next 
the mouth or sense of taste, of the element of earth, 
as matter itself, enters the body. Earth is a visible 
body, born of water; having double the matter, the 
sense of an inward is consciousness, or presence, a 
tasting of an invisible substance or presence of the 
spirit. The outward taste is of the body. These 
are the four elements, inward and outward. The 
virtue of the body is spirit. Each element has an 
invisible part, as a positive and negative ; the one 
testifies to matter, the other to spirit. The four 
elements unite in one body. The life or virtue is 
their centre or spirit; the matter of the elements is 
the outward body, the inward is the spiritual body. 
The fifth sense is of the spirit of the body. Speech, 
the outward matter or body, the voice of nature, the 
effect of matter, or a pure medium : a presence in 
air is by sound : the inward sense is of the invisi- 
ble part. Conscience is a body invisible : is com- 



THE CONSTITUTION. 135 

posed of the spirit of the outward material, and the 
essential of the inward. Bodies have parts ; one a 
visible substance, the other invisible : so have all the 
four elements. Two of the elements therefore are 
invisible ; still a decided character is found : one a 
positive, the other a negative. Matter and spirit 
bodies a law ; or the nature of things is according to 
these, visible or invisible ; the excusation or accusa- 
tion bodies the law; a voice from conscience is a 
matter against the body. The heart is the centre of 
the body, not visible to the outward eye ; this is the 
part of attraction or repulsion ; matter repels, spirit 
attracts, or the nature of life. The understanding is 
the invisible matter, the will is the spirit of the body, 
blood the visible life, spirit is not seen. The will 
is visible in action, in the matter of the understand- 
ing. The earth centres in power, and one heart will 
attract another ; a visible body finds a like. Matter 
or repulsion is being dissimilar ; spirit to spirit is 
kindred and unity ; so of the elements in the supply 
of sense, each particular one furnishes a correspond- 
ent. The life only of the body is eaten, the matter 
or drought is thrown out. Life supports life, or the 
substance of the visible is one, and the invisible an- 
other; spirit the supply of the soul, and matter the 
body. The heart is of the visible body; the soul or 
life is invisible. The voice of words comes from the 
heart. The sense of the outward and inward is a 
eon-science, a coupling of the visible and invisible* 



136 THE CONSTITUTION. 

or spirit. The matter or art is the frame of the body 
or constitution : art and science, or philosophy, is 
the reason or nature of things. 

The senses are five visible and five invisible, or a 
body of ten: four are of the elements of the body, 
the fifth is spirit or a sense of the whole; inlets or 
streams of conveying to the heart. Conscience is 
void of offence : when either part, the outward and 
inward have their due : is without fault and blame- 
less. The science of parts, or conscience, is the 
spirit in agreement ; any matter appearing, the 
bowels of the body is turned into hell. Mercy or 
compassion is of a good conscience, the opposite is 
misery or evil ; good and evil is the fruit of knowl- 
edge. Light is the knowledge of the body, the 
reason of things, or unity of parts : darkness is the 
adversity of the body, or evil. Conscience is loud, 
and will be heard ; is unsatisfied ; until right is re- 
stored the body is unequal. Parts of the body are 
matter and spirit, equal in light. Conscience justi- 
fies or determines right, the universal centre of dis- 
similar things. The body of light in substance is 
reason, or an agreement of parts. Reason is a modi- 
fication of light, or a word of intelligence. Sub- 
stances of things are the light of life ; of the body, 
the invisible power. The spirit in form is the word. 
Words are the life of the body, or substances of 
things. The nature of things, or the law of the 
body, is in knowledge. Parts are of the body, and 



THE CONSTITUTION. 137 

the elements of education characters the same ; one 
part is positive, the other is negative. An inter- 
course is human nature, or contrary things, uniform, 
is reason. 

The male andfemale, have different parts; know* 
ledge is in their union, or knowing each other. The 
fruit of the body is characterised by either, whatever 
prevails is the likeness or image. Man solely or alone 
is a negative ; his independence is his life. A woman 
by herself is positive, one the matter, the other the 
spirit of the body. The nature of things is known 
by the presence or absence of these substances ; the 
spirit, or positive character, always rises; matter, or 
u negative, sinks or goes downward. If the body is 
light or laughter, then is it at the expense of the neg- 
ative character, being too high ; if on'the other side, 
more of the negative character, then is it sad, affect- 
ing the spirit — high or low, one to the other is a law. 
Bodies have a desire one for the other ; the possess- 
ing of one is the endeavour of the other. The neg- 
ative body is the only thing that can temper a 
positive one, the same benefits the other. 

A body is of parts, and parts are of the elements ; 
wisdom is of the body, the life, knowledge the light ; 
both invisible substances. Life is the unity of kind- 
red bodies, or the fruit of marriage. Life invisible, 
or soul, producing a visible body; life visible, or 
body, the invisible. Out of the body, the soul or 
power is found, the life of the body. The soul creates 

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138 THE CONSTITUTION. 

or makes things visible. The heart is the life of the 
body, the soul the life of the body invisible. 

The wisdom of earth and the wisdom of heaven are 
opposed to each other ; one declares the glory of the 
spirit, the other speaks of power ; magnifying the law, 
making it honorable. One the substance of praise to 
the other, as a bride, so is wisdom or the church mar- 
ried in state. The will of the earth, or head of wis- 
dom is the law of the land. The consent of the 
church, or power, upholds the world. 

The world visible, is the image of the invisible ; 
bodies are united by consent, or constituted one, 
by the law of nature. Man and woman, are bodies, 
different from each other universally, they are in 
marriage one — the image of the world. The nature 
of man is downward, the matter of the body ; the na- 
ture of woman is spirit, oftentimes called angels, is 
upwards ; man also, is an angel of light, or a trans- 
formation is a devil, the misery and mercy of the 
body. The law is bodied in contrary things ; the five 
outward senses are the negative, the five inward are 
positive ; the centre is the point of difference, the 
will affirms or denies accordingly. The disposition 
of the body, or heart, is after the nature of their sub- 
stances, the twain are made one in the embrace ; or 
contraries are reconciled. There is no rest out of life — 
the soiil or body, substances different from each other, 
and separately independent, have a desire for each 
other. The body contains the soul or consistency, 



THE CONSTITUTION. 139 

of equal parts, matter prevailing, or measured in 
quantity, is created in form or a visible body. 

The body is visible, the soul invisible ; the body 
is after the hid life, the soul delights in visible 
things; a mutual desire producing love or union. 
The heart is the centre of the body, where these two 
substances do meet, and the invisible or power is 
seated. The will is the law, either as to the matter 
or spirit of the body, and the direction it takes is life 
or death. Wisdom is the heart, or union, of two 
contrary substances, even a divided body ; opposites 
are exercises of power, or a work of creation, spirit 
is the heart of the visible body, or life ; blood the 
life physical or elementary ; fire the activity. Parts 
visible and invisible is a perfected body or form ; when 
the matter prevails the body is visible, or the law 
appears. The soul and body, or form and power is 
the head invisible, or rule. Form is of the earth, 
an invisible image, power is of heaven, a visible re- 
presentation, they interchangeably support each 
other ; things visible for power, invisible things for 
the body. Matter and spirit, each of these conceives ; 
life is centred, a broken body is sacrifice ; in the di- 
vision substances appear, or parts of the law, equal 
and independent; divided their nature or disposition 
is known : and the character of the body is accord- 
ing to the element they are of The law passes 
through four gates — the four elements, bodies the 
portions of the world; heaven and earth, contain no 



140 THE CONSTITUTION. 

more ; the invisible or life is of these, a union of ele- 
ments is a visible body, mental or physical ; the life 
of the body is spirit. 

The substances of matter and spirit can at plea- 
sure be put in form ; a proportion of equal parts per- 
fects a body. The spirit with matter is the anima- 
tion — the standard is in the invisible; it takes a 
world to make a man, a god to make a world. The 
body is ten, or the outward and inward sense agree- 
ing are one ; ten to one is the proportion of power, 
or an honest man is one out of ten thousand. Equal 
parts is the balance of power. 

Life is the command or head of the body, origina- 
ting in the lowest, or part most distant ; the foot a 
matter of the understanding. Visible things have a 
negative character, invisible a positive. Yea and nay 
are the verities of the parts, the nature of the thing 
declares itself. 

Words are forms of the spirit or representations of 
outward things, the substance of a visible body. The 
will is the spirit, the understanding the matter of the 
body. A visible body is the understanding of the 
soul or matter of power. 

The life of the visible, is matter to the life invisible ; 
or power is all in all. Visible things are temporal, 
invisible eternal : the constitution is the life, an in- 
visible standard. Rule is of the body spiritual, or a 
golden law, the matter of observation is the satisfac- 
tion of the spirit; law is of the body, is life ; a crown- 
ed head bodies the law. Rule is of power. 



THE CONSTITUTION. 141 

State and church are offsprings of the world. One 
is born of matter the other the spirit ; one earthly 
the other heavenly. There is a conception of one 
and the other, the spirit is invisible, matter visible ; 
these planted in like ground increases to perfection. 

The head is a visible or physical cultivation : out- 
wardly the things of the earth or the matter, the 
negative part of the heart; inwardly the spirit or 
forms of power. Words or the light of the under- 
standing are matured by cultivation; inwardly or 
outwardly they are imaged by a visible head. 

The soul is the life or spirit of the body. The 
heart is of the body ; the soul is of the heart, or bom 
again, an ethical conception. The body of the heart, 
or words of the spirit, is the invisible ground of the 
soul; outwardly in word, inwardly indeed ; or the 
power of the body. Soul and body are equal, or 
parts of man, the inward and outward, the form and 
power; out of the earth, the body is taken; and the 
soul is found in the body. 

Man is the image of the visible world, or the form 
of the invisible. The power of the invisible world 
is a god, the invisible image or soul of the world. 
The visible and invisible are equal. Sacrifice of 
body and soul is the death of the offering. A body 
must die as well as a body must live. Life is im- 
mortal, death mortal. The law is composed of life 
and death, or bodied in spirit and matter ; one the 
bound, the other the limit, or rule of the body. 



142 THE CONSTITUTION. 

Time is the substance of the law or life ; the in- 
visible part is spirit; the visible, matter or blood. 
Death is the penalty, or debt of nature. Time and 
eternity are equal : both substances of life. It takes 
time to produce an eternity, and an eternity to re- 
deem time. Time of the body is experience, or 
knowledge of the law, parts of life and death, or the 
prosperity and adversity of the same. A standing 
body, or truth, is only erect in equity. 

The seeming disproportion of time and eternity 
dies in the familiarity of proportion. Time has 
bounds. Eternity is the limit of the world. Time 
is found in effects, a visible body ; the matter of the 
world. 

The life of the world visible, and the life of the 
world invisible, or the substances of heaven and 
earth, are ever. 

Life is a commerce, an intercourse of individuals 
or nations; and nations and kingdoms are one by 
marriage. 

Bond and free are made equal in duty. 

In conclusion, the spirit is life, the matter death ; 
originating out of one being. The manner is, the mo- 
tion of life ; is stopped by death, otherwise is per- 
petual, The two opposite bodies of life and death, 
establishes a fixed centre ; as it is impossible to be 
overthrown, is ever. 

Life covered, the body is eclipsed. 

The king is a visible head or life, the centre, 



THE CONSTITUTION. 143 

heart, and power of the earth ; the King of Kings is 
invisible, the power, heart, and centre of heaven. 

Life visible and invisible, in marriage, destroy 
each other. 

The fruit is the evil one, or a body of transgression. 

The covering of man is woman. Form, the sub- 
stance of the body; the church or woman, is visible 
in form, either earthly or heavenly. The church 
visible, is the church on earth, and the head of 
heaven is the invisible on earth. In knowledge 
good and evil is found. There is a knowledge of 
the earth, an evil communication; and there is a 
knowledge of heaven, a hope of the earth. The 
change of one substance into another is the spirit. 
To punish transgression, a new direction is given. 
The wisdom of the earth spreads the table : after, 
the heavens are rolled up as a scroll. 

The light of the visible world is the sun, or light 
of the earth. The light of the invisible is the sun of 
heaven. 

The family of heaven are stars : the visible heav- 
ens declare the inhabitants or glory. 

Heaven and earth are offsprings of one parent : 
one inherits the name, the other the substance : a 
lord of heaven, and a lord of earth : equal in wealth. 

Kingdoms are two in number, one in covenant: 
the kingdom of the earth and the kingdom of heaven : 
are of one seed of the tree of life, the power of the 
world. 



144 THE CONSTITUTION. 

The wisdom of the earth is in magnitude. Heav- 
en's esteem is in brilliants, small and large are con- 
trary, and so are all things of the world: much earth 
to little gold dust. The gold of heaven is a man of 
the world. 

The possessions of earth and heaven are conjoined 
in a bill of exchange ; the substance or the word, is 
equal to the bond of the earth. 

Things are many, or confusion ; many or few, one 
thing is needful : if heaven born or free, of the spirit 
begotten : thereunto is added the things of the earth. 
If of the water, in bond with the elements ; made of 
the earth: heaven is a gift. 

The principle thing is wisdom, the content of 
every thing ; as a thing of the earth, or a thing of 
heaven ; as male and female are wedded, bodied ; 
and their progeny is in kind. The woman seed is 
heaven ; the seed of man is of the earth, visible and 
invisible. 

The life of the earth is light, and the light of 
heaven is life. The earth is read by heaven, and 
heaven is the intelligence of earth. Heaven and 
earth are visible, and die and pass away. Bodies as 
soon as formed, or become visible, die; either in 
heaven or earth. Life above and beneath, rank and 
file, at command and honour ; bodies temporal and 
spiritual, only can exist in truth. 

The marriage of life is truth. Out of heaven and 
ear th, truth is brought forth, the glory of being or deity. 



THE CONSTITUTION. 145 

The sun and moon, or majesty of heaven, divides 
the time at will. Night and day, summer and 
winter, are in equal measure : her dance among the 
stars, is his royal pleasure ; her reign is at night ; 
the sovereign is the light of day. The greater 
and lesser, cover each other, and become pregnant 
with life. The shadow of life is time. A body the 
more handled, the more visible. Lifetime is the 
sum of number : while days, weeks, months, and 
years, are only four seasons. The round of life is 
the hand of time, or the lesser division. A watch 
that does not go, will point right, twice in twenty- 
four hours. Marks of time, or morning and evening, 
are one day. Wedlock is by covenant, and pairs 
or couples are married. Whether the sun moves 
or stands still, life is bodied. All and every body 
has a life of their own ; to go or stay, is optional ; 
or a matter of opinion, a view of life ; to go or stay, 
are contrary — the only substances found in life. 
The earth as all rest, for it is there every thing visi- 
ble finds it. The sun as all motion, the life of the 
earth: still the bed of the ocean, is where he sinks 
to rest; and rises not until the morning. To go or 
stay, is clemency, an exercise of power. Life is 
visible, or invisible ; is equal in power. The sun 
stands still, in the death of time. Life is ever, in 
motion or in rest. 

Man and woman, are a compendium of the world ; 
and where the motion or rest, is not complained of, 
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146 THE CONSTITUTION. 

there is happiness. Thunder and lightning, one 
for motion, the other for rest, is the matter and spi- 
rit ; of two bodies in opposition : a discharge brings 
a clear sky ; but the noise and the passion, is as 
much as can be borne. 

Contemplating what is written, the idea of perfec- 
tion is found. Taking the image, whether visible 
or invisible, there is a generation to perfection : an 
idea is produced from a thought, of the material 
collected; and the two coming together, the thing 
is conceived. 

Substances, either matter or spirit, compose or 
make a body : a visible matter, is a material ; the 
spirit invisible, essential : conception is life. 

The spirit is female, a woman, or church ; the 
light of the body, or soul of wisdom. 

The body of wisdom is male, or state ; the light 
or revelation. 

The light of the body, is life ; a body of light, 
is life: a body is visible, life invisible: a material 
perfection, is the ground of an essential one ; they 
work together, and ceases for ever. 

Two bodies of power, meeting, as all things do 
in wisdom, or life with life ; then is the world made 
glorious. The cease of war is in the shaking of 
hands. Ever and ever, are the last sounds of being; 
first heard in heaven, repeated or echoed in earth ; 
or the Amen and Amen. 

Matter to conceive, is a type of the substance ; 
spirit to conceive, is an idea of matter. 



THE CONSTITUTION. 147 

Matter, upon matter, gives birth to art ; and per- 
fection is the model of a workman. To grave an 
image, or plant it in matter, is possible : to raise the 
matter, or a dead body, is not impossible: spirit 
poured in, is a raising of the matter. Tide and time 
are equal ; the rise and fall of empires, is in a breath : 
the building up, or pulling down, is in the spirit : 
whatever direction is given, the body executes. 

Dignity and excellency, are compositions of life, 
or incense grateful to the visible and invisible image. 



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